R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

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this is the most dangerous, risk-taking performance of them all. Nelsons propels forward but never overdrives the exuberant rushes and crises of the mountaineers...[Salome's dance] has personality... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: C833111
Label: Orfeo
Length: 62 minutes

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Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Work length51:19

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Nacht

Track length3:37

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Sonnenaufgang

Track length1:26

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Der Anstieg

Track length2:14

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Eintritt in den Wald

Track length5:18

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Wanderung neben dem Bache

Track length0:44

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Am Wasserfall

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Erscheinung

Track length0:48

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Auf blumigen Wiesen

Track length0:52

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Auf der Alm

Track length2:22

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Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen

Track length1:25

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Auf dem Gletscher

Track length1:05

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Gefahrvolle Augenblicke

Track length1:29

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Auf dem Gipfel

Track length4:38

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Vision

Track length3:05

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Nebel steigen auf

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Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich

Track length0:49

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Elegie

Track length2:19

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Stille vor dem Sturm

Track length2:59

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Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg

Track length3:41

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Sonnenuntergang

Track length3:01

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Ausklang

Track length6:21

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Nacht (Reprise)

Track length2:34

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Strauss, R: Salomes Tanz, TrV 215a

Work length9:26

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Applause

Work length1:20

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Audience of Symphony Hall, Birmingham

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With his Alpine Symphony, Richard Strauss invites us to see it as a veritable ‘summit’ in the genre of programme music. It is masterly in its layers of orchestration (not unlike a mountain massif ), while its harmonic and motivic riches offer a sublime acoustic panorama that is gigantic in scope.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under its music director Andris Nelsons, have already released a highly-praised Strauss disc on Orfeo with Ein Heldenleben and the Rosenkavalier Suite, and Nelsons understands how to convey his fascination with Strauss to both orchestra and listeners with utter conviction.

There are naturally moments of solitude and reflection – as when, for example, Strauss makes thematic allusions to Also sprach Zarathustra (at the summit). Then there is the sense of calm that is subtly savoured to the full after the storms that marked the descent. Strauss was not just concerned with personal liberty, but was also capable of enthusiastic liberality – as in his opera Salome, which caused such a scandal at the time of its première. This is clearly audible in the brilliant encore that the CBSO and Nelsons offer here, namely the Dance of the Seven Veils. We rarely hear it so finely tuned and with such unerring accuracy in its orchestral colours and rhythmic density, not to mention climaxes and shifts in tempi. This classic of the early 20th century could hardly be played in a fresher, more contemporary manner.

Reviews

June 2011

this is the most dangerous, risk-taking performance of them all. Nelsons propels forward but never overdrives the exuberant rushes and crises of the mountaineers...[Salome's dance] has personality written all over it in the best possible way...veer[ing] between impressionistic delicacy and expressionist nightmare...Stunning work.

April 2011

Nelsons [rightly] conceives the piece as a symphonic abstraction, its descriptive qualities merely the starting-point for an ascent then descent whose 'rise and fall' is of an altogether more elemental cast...[The Dance of the Seven Veils] highly persuasive in its inexorable progress from suave languor to febrile abandon...an Alpine Symphony that reaffirms the chemistry of the Nelsons/CBSO partnership.

25th March 2011

From the dark opening to the sunlit blazes on the mountaintop, Nelsons’s approach to Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is sharply defined, the textures malleable yet tightly controlled and the music animated with passion. The CBSO plays gloriously both in the symphony and in the sultriness and wild excess of Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils.

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