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Strauss, R - Don Juan, Op. 20
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Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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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. —
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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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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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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... —
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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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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...... —
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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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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... —
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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. —
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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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Building A Library, August 2023, Recommended Recording (Don Juan)
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I found this an enormously exciting performance of The Planets ... Karajan gives an absolutely splendid performance, breathing new life into the music ... and it is just so welcome to see how... —
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Special offer. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra & Don Juan
Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Barantschik (violin)
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Special offer. Richard Strauss - Symphonic Poems Volume 1
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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