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New, Offer, Richard Strauss: 'Aber der Richtige'
Violin Concerto & Miniatures
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
The daughter of a repetiteur at the Bavarian State Opera, Steinbacher was exposed to Strauss’s vocal music at a young age, and she colours the soaring lines of four song-transcriptions and her... — More…
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Strauss, R: Salome
Emily Magee (Salome), Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Michaela Schuster (Herodias), Peter Bronder (Herodes), Benjamin Bruns (Narraboth)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Andres Orozco-Estrada
What we gain here in exemplary clarity of Strauss’s sonic spider-web we lose in momentum for, say, the climactic welter which ends in Jokanaan’s curse…Magee as the spoiled princess propels the... — More…
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Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
As we reach the summit, its fine oboe solo followed by broad brass proclamations, Orozco-Estrada’s interpretative strategy becomes clear. This is a reading of glorious warmth and grandeur – as... — More…
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Offer, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Asia Tour
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Yuja Wang (piano), Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
The recordings are astonishingly vivid, and the whole set provides a very impressive showcase of the Berlin Phil’s current condition as it nears the end of Rattle’s reign. The highlight is definitely... — More…
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I can’t remember the last time I was so thrilled by a Beethoven symphony performance as by this brilliantly-recorded release. On a technical level alone, the orchestra’s playing is absolutely... — More…
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New, Strauss, Debussy and Ligeti
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
This new, clear and light-footed recording [of the Strauss] helps to hide its excesses, with Nott (and Pentatone’s engineers) preventing the work’s arteries from clogging up…The Debussy…is beautifully... — More…
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Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica & Die Tageszeiten
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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
those who don't know the least often heard of the symphonic poems should be amazed by Marek Janowski's sympathetic, detailed interpretation; but even Straussians don't often get to hear Die Tageszeiten…I... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... — More…
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Strauss - Don Juan & Eine Alpensinfonie
Recorded Live at Concertgebouw 19, 20, 21 & 23 September 2007 (Alpensinfonie); 18, 21 October 2007, 16, 17 January 2008 (Don Juan)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (chief conductor)
…Mariss Jansons's… great lover is beefier if less nimble-footed than George Szell's (on Sony), with the woodwind repeated-note support crystal clear behind spacious strings. …Jansons's…Alpine... — More…
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Mahler: Totenfeier
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
The sensitive, finely shaped, searching performance that follows on makes a good case for playing things down at the start [of Also sprach]…the performance [of Totenfeier] has such compelling... — More…
