Browse: Strauss, R - Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
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R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Authoritative from the first bar’s fleshy bass, Antonio Pappano’s bel canto approach to Strauss’s mock-epic hero cultivates beauty of sound even in usually bombastically noisy stretches such... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Richard Strauss - The Great Tone Poems
RecommendedVienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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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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Supremely vivid Strauss, guided by the surest of conducting hands…[this] series - may it be all the symphonic poems - can only go from strength to strength. Amazing work. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 25th February 2017, Recording of the Week
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R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Ein Heldenleben Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
There’s no lack of excitement or, where needed, bombast, and the Osloers’ sound at full throttle is thrilling, their playing superb. But what makes this account so special is that it also has... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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Strauss: Complete Tone Poems SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, François-Xavier Roth
This now surely has to be the top-rating digital set of Strauss’s tone poems. — More…
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[The FRSO] offer a rich, well-upholstered sound…everything’s where it should be, and the playing has an easy virtuosity. Heldenleben sets off with terrific swagger, while the love music swells... — More…
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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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Strauss has always been at the core of the Bavarian orchestra's repertoire, and his heroes swagger and strive with such engaging exuberance on this recording, made last September on the orchestra's... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Strauss: Four Last Songs
RecommendedDeluxe Hard cover book version
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
hers is a potentially magnificent instrument imperfectly wielded...One or two odd vowel sounds apart, the German isn't bad...Near-miraculous engineering gives us phenomenal details...but also... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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