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Richard Strauss / Jansons- Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie & Tod und Verklarung (CD)

SKU: 4035719001488
¥138.00
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At the age of just fifteen, the budding composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lost his way during a summer hike on the Heimgarten in the Bavarian Alps, and ended up in a thunderstorm. The next day, he fantasized about the experience on the piano. - Twenty years later, that memory had matured into a concept describing a one-day hike in the form of a symphonic poem, and in 1915 - a further fifteen years later - Strauss finally completed his masterpiece. The hike begins in the darkness before dawn, and after sunrise the ascent goes through a forest, past a stream and a waterfall, through meadows and pastures, and up to a glacier. The hiker then loses his way, and after several risky moments arrives at the summit, where he also experiences a vision. The weather then suddenly worsens, and the descent is accompanied by heavy rain and fierce thunderstorms. The eventful day - summarized in just sixty minutes of music - ends with a sunset, and darkness returns. "An Alpine Symphony" is probably Strauss' most famous symphonic poem. It's content is easily understandable, and the work became especially well-known for it's gigantic orchestra. The music is far from heavy-handed, however, with many of the passages orchestrated like chamber music. Like a kind of greeting from the Bavarian Alps, as it were, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and it's chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece, and the music of Richard Strauss in general, on the programme of their forthcoming tour of Asia in late 2016. The live recording of "Alpine Symphony" concerts planned for October 2016 in Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig is enhanced on this latest release from BR-KLASSIK by the addition of Strauss' symphonic poem "Death and Transfiguration", first performed in 1890; the recording here is of concerts performed in Munich in February 2014. - We thus have two very recent interpretations of two of this great German composer's most important tone poems on one release.

Tracklist:

  1. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nacht (Night) -
  2. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise) -
  3. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Der Anstieg (The Ascent) -
  4. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Eintritt In Den Wald (Entry Into The Wood) -
  5. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Wanderung Neben Dem Bache (Wandering By The Brook) -
  6. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Am Wasserfall (At The Waterfall) -
  7. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Erscheinung (Apparition) -
  8. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Blumigen Wiesen (On Flowering Meadows) -
  9. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Der Alm (On The Alpine Pasture) -
  10. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Durch Dickicht Und Gestrüpp Auf Irrwegen (Straying Through Thicket And Undergrowth) -
  11. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Dem Gletscher (On The Glacier) -
  12. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Gefahrvolle Augenblicke (Dangerous Moments) -
  13. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Dem Gipfel (On The Summit) -
  14. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Vision -
  15. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nebel Steigen Auf (Mists Rise) -
  16. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Die Sonne Verdüstert Sich Allmählich (The Sun Gradually Darkens) -
  17. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Elegie -
  18. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Stille Vor Dem Sturm (Calm Before The Storm) -
  19. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Gewitter Und Sturm, Abstieg (Thunder And Storm, Descent) -
  20. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Sonnenuntergang (Sunset) -
  21. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Ausklang (Final Sounds) -
  22. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nacht (Night)
  23. Tod Und Verklärung, Op. 24, Trv 158: Tod Und Verklärung (Death And Transfiguration), Op. 24, Trv 158

UPC > 4035719001488

Format > New CD

Label > Br Klassiks

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Richard Strauss / Jansons- Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie & Tod und Verklarung (CD)

SKU: 4035719001488
¥138.00

Release Date: 01.06.2017

 
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At the age of just fifteen, the budding composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lost his way during a summer hike on the Heimgarten in the Bavarian Alps, and ended up in a thunderstorm. The next day, he fantasized about the experience on the piano. - Twenty years later, that memory had matured into a concept describing a one-day hike in the form of a symphonic poem, and in 1915 - a further fifteen years later - Strauss finally completed his masterpiece. The hike begins in the darkness before dawn, and after sunrise the ascent goes through a forest, past a stream and a waterfall, through meadows and pastures, and up to a glacier. The hiker then loses his way, and after several risky moments arrives at the summit, where he also experiences a vision. The weather then suddenly worsens, and the descent is accompanied by heavy rain and fierce thunderstorms. The eventful day - summarized in just sixty minutes of music - ends with a sunset, and darkness returns. "An Alpine Symphony" is probably Strauss' most famous symphonic poem. It's content is easily understandable, and the work became especially well-known for it's gigantic orchestra. The music is far from heavy-handed, however, with many of the passages orchestrated like chamber music. Like a kind of greeting from the Bavarian Alps, as it were, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and it's chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece, and the music of Richard Strauss in general, on the programme of their forthcoming tour of Asia in late 2016. The live recording of "Alpine Symphony" concerts planned for October 2016 in Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig is enhanced on this latest release from BR-KLASSIK by the addition of Strauss' symphonic poem "Death and Transfiguration", first performed in 1890; the recording here is of concerts performed in Munich in February 2014. - We thus have two very recent interpretations of two of this great German composer's most important tone poems on one release.

Tracklist:

  1. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nacht (Night) -
  2. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise) -
  3. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Der Anstieg (The Ascent) -
  4. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Eintritt In Den Wald (Entry Into The Wood) -
  5. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Wanderung Neben Dem Bache (Wandering By The Brook) -
  6. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Am Wasserfall (At The Waterfall) -
  7. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Erscheinung (Apparition) -
  8. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Blumigen Wiesen (On Flowering Meadows) -
  9. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Der Alm (On The Alpine Pasture) -
  10. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Durch Dickicht Und Gestrüpp Auf Irrwegen (Straying Through Thicket And Undergrowth) -
  11. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Dem Gletscher (On The Glacier) -
  12. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Gefahrvolle Augenblicke (Dangerous Moments) -
  13. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Auf Dem Gipfel (On The Summit) -
  14. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Vision -
  15. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nebel Steigen Auf (Mists Rise) -
  16. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Die Sonne Verdüstert Sich Allmählich (The Sun Gradually Darkens) -
  17. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Elegie -
  18. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Stille Vor Dem Sturm (Calm Before The Storm) -
  19. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Gewitter Und Sturm, Abstieg (Thunder And Storm, Descent) -
  20. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Sonnenuntergang (Sunset) -
  21. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Ausklang (Final Sounds) -
  22. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Nacht (Night)
  23. Tod Und Verklärung, Op. 24, Trv 158: Tod Und Verklärung (Death And Transfiguration), Op. 24, Trv 158

UPC > 4035719001488

Format > New CD

Label > Br Klassiks

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