Strauss/ Kent/ Khamis - Enoch ArdenSOMM Recordings announces 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 traveler returning from a mysterious mediaeval fortress, The Castle by the Sea. Making their SOMM Recordings debuts are actor Christopher Kent

on the trip

The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among it's five members

and other percussive techniques

Two marches complete the programme - the Television March was commissioned by the BBC (just three weeks before the date of broadcast

" Both tracks have been newly remastered for this exclusive release

Half-speed heavy funk on 'Retrato de Dete'

Passionate advocates of French music

sometimes delivering unforgettable

it's an epochal achievement - a testament to the offers of faith

who suggests that he not carry out the Colonel's wishes under threat of police involvement

Edwin August and Alfred Paget

a lone monk embarks on a quest to find and return the relic to it's proper home before someone accidentally unleashes an apocalyptic cataclysm