Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Mahler: Totenfeier
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Awards:
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Record Review, 23rd September 2017, Recording of the Week
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...
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Mahler: Totenfeier
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
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Awards:
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Record Review, 23rd September 2017, Recording of the Week
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...
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Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss's electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler's Totenfeier.
Released to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra.
Strauss's bold and passionate tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra is a riveting work, famous for its startlingly atmospheric opening. With a thrilling and florid orchestral score, it's a work which Jurowski observes "...launches the whole idea of 20th century music”
It is paired with Mahler's no less gripping Totenfeier which is an early version of the first movement of his Symphony No 2 "Resurrection".
Jurowski is one of today's most sought-after conductors and has made several critically acclaimed recordings for PENTATONE.
The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin is one of the leading orchestras in Berlin. Under former artistic director and chief conductor Marek Janowski, it has made numerous classic recordings with PENTATONE, including a critically acclaimed cycle of 10 Wagner operas.
Contents and tracklist
- Tobias Berndt (organ)
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Vladimir Jurowski
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Awards and reviews
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Record Review23rd September 2017Recording of the Week
Christmas 2017
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 conviction that occasional differences from the familiar version (orchestration, texture, a small amount of extra material) hardly matter…Whoever wrote [the Symphonic Prelude], I doubt it’s been better performed.
Record Review 23rd September 2017
the expansive, eloquent performance it receives here tops off a worthwhile disc.
