Building a Library, Strauss, R (composer)
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[Zarathustra] Karajan’s 1973 version is definitive in a way that few recordings are: a seamless meeting of minds between composer and conductor. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Mariss Jansons conducts Richard Strauss
RecommendedThe 100th release of BR-KLASSIK Label!
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Live recordings…with character and excitement. The Alpine Symphony storm is impressively gutsy. — More…
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended - Eine Alpensinfonie
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The Alpensinfonie is no longer a rarity on disc, but there are still grounds for preferring the famous Karajan version to subsequent digital rivals, especially in this successful remastering.... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2011, First Choice
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Building A Library, November 2021, Recommended Recording
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Ein Heldenlebenwas always a favourite party-piece of Herbert von Karajan, so the challenge to his successor, Simon Rattle, is all the more formidable.
It says much for Rattle's achievement in... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence & R. Strauss: Metamorphosen
RecommendedNorwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown
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Building a Library, March 2019, Chamber Orchestra Recommendation
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Building A Library, August 2023, Recommended Recording (Don Juan)
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Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica
RecommendedJonathan Small (oboe), Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Alan Pendlebury (bassoon)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Sheer heaven...remarkable performance — More…
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Building a Library, October 2014, First Choice
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Strauss: Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben
RecommendedSymphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
This Don Juan is not about impulse and surprise, the 24-year-old composer's original goals. Rather it languidly reveals the tonal beauty of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - unquestionably... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2019, Recommended Recording
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Wilhelm Furtwängler
RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker & Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Building a Library, December 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, April 2018, Recommended Recording
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R. Strauss: Don Quixote & Horn Concerto No. 2
RecommendedPierre Fournier (cello), Giusto Cappone (viola), Norbert Hauptmann (horn)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
The Berlin players clearly enjoy the orchestral effects Strauss calls for, including the bleating wind and brass in the episode where Don Quixote encounters a flock of sheep and mistakes them... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2020, Recommended Recording
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