Special offer. Richard Strauss: Tone Poems Volume 4
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle’s is not an Alpine Symphony in the wide-screen, Technicolor mode but a performance defined by a wonderful lyrical generosity, complete control of the work’s 50-minute span and orchestral...
Special offer. Richard Strauss: Tone Poems Volume 4
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
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Weigle’s is not an Alpine Symphony in the wide-screen, Technicolor mode but a performance defined by a wonderful lyrical generosity, complete control of the work’s 50-minute span and orchestral...
About
The biographical point of departure for the Alpine Symphony was a hiking excursion in the Heimgarten of the Bavarian foothills of the Alps undertaken by the still youthful composer in 1879; when he took the wrong path, he was surprised by an unexpected storm front. The result was a magnificent symphonic poem that Strauss himself intended to call “Antichrist”.
There is an astonishing bon mot attributed to the composer that seems to intentionally veil the history of this work’s composition: “I once wanted to compose like a cow gives milk”.
Contents and tracklist
- Oper Frankfurt
- Sebastian Weigle
- Recorded: 1-2 November 2015
- Recording Venue: Alte Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Awards and reviews
November 2016
Weigle’s is not an Alpine Symphony in the wide-screen, Technicolor mode but a performance defined by a wonderful lyrical generosity, complete control of the work’s 50-minute span and orchestral playing in which every note seems to reflect the drama that is being played out – physical turning metaphysical as the work progresses…highly recommended
