STRAUSS RICHARD

(2-CD) ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
Initially designed to be a play with music, it quickly became apparent to Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal that what was intended as an after-dinner entertainment would require an opera company to perform it. So, in 1916, a 30-minute 'divertissement' became a 90-minute opera, with a newly composed prologue. Set in the house of 'the richest man in Vienna', it concerns the struggles of a young composer to arrange a performance of his new opera for the guests his master has invited to the house. His opera is about Ariadne on t...
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(CD) HOLST: THE PLANETS / STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this surround-sound recording. Their performance of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst's The Planets is already a point of reference ...
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(CD) SONATES POUR VIOLONCELLE ET PIANO
Romance for Cello and Orchestra in F major, AV 75 by Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 6 by Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 28 by Max Reger Caprice and Kleine Romanze for Cello and Piano, Op. 79e: no 2 - Kleine Romanze by Max Reger Performer: Emmanuelle Bertrand (Cello), Pascal Amoyel (Piano)...
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(10-CD BOX SET) RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonia Domestica For Large Orchestra, Op.53 Don Juan, Symphonic Poem For Large Orchestra, Op.20 Symphonic Poem For Large Orchestra, Op.40 Intermezzo, Op.72 Songs With Orchestra Till Eulenspiegel'S Merry Pranks Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations On A Chivalrous Theme Salome, Op.54 Death And Transfiguration, Symphonic Poem For Large Orchestra, Op.24 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Symphonic Poem Op.30 Feuersnot, Op.50 Orchestral Suite, Op.60 Concerto No.1 For Horn And Orchestra In E Flat Major, Op.11 The Knight Of The Rose Elektra: T...
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(3-CD SET) DER ROSENKAVALIER
When, nearly 30 years since its release, a review of a reissue of Karajan's recording of Der Rosenkavalier opens with the words 'It really does triumph over them all -- even the outstanding 1969 Solti/Decca...' (Gramophone, 1988) you know that you are about to listen to something extraordinary. Central to this recording's enduring success is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin. Stefan Zweig wrote of the Marschallin that she is the incarnation of 'the holiest exuberance of life' and Schwarzkopf captures the vitality, charisma, sensuali...
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