℗ 2022 SOMM Recordings
| Released | May 20, 2022 |
| Duration | 1h 09m 45s |
| Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
| Catalogue No. | SOMMCD0651 |
| Genre | Classical (Romantic Era) |
R. Strauss: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181 & The Castle by the Sea, TrV 191
Christopher Kent, Gamal Khamis
Available in 352.8 kHz / 24-bit, 192 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC and 2.8224 MHz DSD high resolution audio formats
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Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181 (Narrated in English)
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1.1
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Long Lines of Cliff Breaking
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
7:11 | |||
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1.2
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So These Were Wed
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
7:29 | |||
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1.3
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She When the Day That Enoch Mention'd
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
8:13 | |||
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1.4
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And So Ten Years, Since Enoch Left
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
8:53 | |||
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1.5
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When Lo' Her Enoch Sitting on a Height
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
3:51 | |||
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1.6
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And Where Was Enoch?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
7:28 | |||
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1.7
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Thus Over Enoch's Early Silvering Head
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
7:47 | |||
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1.8
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Now, When the Dead Man Come to Life
Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
9:08 | |||
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1.9
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Woman, Disturb Me Not Now at the Last
Richard Strauss; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
4:41 | |||
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1.10
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The Castle by the Sea, TrV 191 (Narrated in English)
Ludwig Uhland; Christopher Kent; Richard Strauss; Christopher Kent; Gamal Khamis |
5:04 | |||
SOMM Recordings releases a major addition to the Richard Strauss catalogue with new recordings of his settings of two era-defining melodramas: the epic poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, England’s revered and longest-serving Poet Laureate, and German poet Ludwig Uhland’s atmospheric interrogation of a traveller returning from a mysterious mediaeval fortress, The Castle by the Sea. Making their SOMM Recordings debuts are actor Christopher Kent and pianist Gamal Khamis.
Both works were composed for the distinguished German actor and director, Ernst von Possart. A powerful, potent and timeless tale of honour, love and sacrifice within a love triangle, Enoch Arden is one of Strauss’s most evocative and emotional scores. The Castle by the Sea – here in its first recording of Christopher Kent’s translation – is a miniature gothic masterpiece.
352.8 kHz / 24-bit, 192 kHz / 24-bit PCM and 2.8224 MHz DSD – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.48 -9.46 to -0.70 | -28.01 -33.76 to -23.22 | -23.72 -29.90 to -17.60 | 16 13 to 19 | |
| 1 | Long Lines of Cliff Breaking | -2.38 | -26.92 | -23.4 | 16 |
| 2 | So These Were Wed | -7.52 | -33.76 | -29.9 | 19 |
| 3 | She When the Day That Enoch Mention'd | -2.16 | -28.30 | -23.9 | 16 |
| 4 | And So Ten Years, Since Enoch Left | -6.36 | -33.16 | -29.3 | 18 |
| 5 | When Lo' Her Enoch Sitting on a Height | -1.86 | -23.95 | -19.8 | 14 |
| 6 | And Where Was Enoch? | -1.18 | -27.34 | -23.0 | 16 |
| 7 | Thus Over Enoch's Early Silvering Head | -9.46 | -33.38 | -29.6 | 17 |
| 8 | Now, When the Dead Man Come to Life | -0.70 | -23.35 | -17.6 | 13 |
| 9 | Woman, Disturb Me Not Now at the Last | -2.45 | -26.69 | -21.8 | 15 |
| 10 | The Castle by the Sea, TrV 191 (Narrated in English) | -0.70 | -23.22 | -18.9 | 15 |