Strauss, R - Don Juan, Op. 20
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Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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Special offer. 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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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended - Eine Alpensinfonie
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[Zarathustra] Karajan’s 1973 version is definitive in a way that few recordings are: a seamless meeting of minds between composer and conductor. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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a virtuosic Cleveland Orchestra, with shrilling clarinets outstanding, responds brilliantly to Franz Welser-Möst’s justifiable hell-for-leather tour of the medieval prankster’s shortlived exploits...... — More…
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Record Review, 18th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
RecommendedCatherine Bullock (viola), Louisa Tuck (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The lunatic, the lover and the joker are of imagination all infinite in these supremely vivid interpretations…Petrenko takes his time over the first unravelling of the melancholy knight’s wits…A... — More…
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Record Review, 19th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Bernard Haitink conducts Strauss: Don Juan & Ein Heldenleben
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
The Don Juan...gives any account in the catalogue a run for its money in terms of sheer elan, and bristles with energy, The LPO's playing is vibrant and full of the sense of a live performance...the... — More…
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Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan, Sechs Lieder Op. 68
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
When orchestral sonorities and engineering coincide like this, the result in Strauss is thrilling...Ticciati’s winged uplift gilds the afterlife beautifully, while there’s dynamic restraint... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Fans of the Hallé will be delighted with Mark Elder's intense but spacious accounts of the tone poems here… Schwanewilms often begins with lines of instrumental purity, beautifully attuned... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. R. Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration & Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's interpretations have huge personality, and mostly in the right way. He's not averse to Stokowski-style touchings-up if they help the drama...Honeck likes to underline something pathological... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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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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Special offer. 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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