This Friday sees the release in the UK of Strauss’s Enoch Arden featuring Kirill Gerstein accompanying the late Swiss actor Bruno Ganz narrating the German text based on the original poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In the booklet and on Kirill’s website here, you can read his account of their collaboration: “Bruno Ganz and I first met at the Ittingen festival in 2011. Having always been captivated by the magnetism of his talent and personality, I dared ask him whether he could be persuaded to collaborate one day on a performance of Richard Strauss’s 1897 Enoch Arden melodrama.