BaL 22.01.11 - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm not sure, but I've just ordered 3 more, bringing my total to 58. I'm just not willing to pay inflated prices for those I'm still chasing.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Just found the Concertgebouw/ Haitink Alpensinfonie in a Launceston charity shop for £1.99 so maybe there is a god

It's blowing the windows out as I type. Wasn't quite sure about some of the grumblings of lower wind instruments just after the start (some loss of impetus?) but it soon grabbed me: splendid horns, on- and off-stage, throughout.

[pastoralguy]

Gracious - does that top pastoralguy's set of the Beethoven Violin Concerto ?

It has increased in number since then!!

I'lll try to count tomorrow.

[pastoralguy]

Ps. I played in the Scottish Premiere of the Alpine symphony!

Great piece.

(Mrs PG and I are going to hear the BBCSSO play it in the Edinburgh Festival, couples with - Beethoven's 'Pastoral' symphony!)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ps. I played in the Scottish Premiere of the Alpine symphony!

When was that?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry to bore everyone to death with my pet obsession, but I was looking through the Wikipedia page on this work and note that there are still may errors in the so-called comprehensive list of recordings. So I thought I'd have a go at making my own list - from the earliest pre-electric recording to the latest Blu-ray release:

1925
Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Oskar Fried

1936
Orchester des Reichssenders München; Richard Strauss

1941
Bayerisches Staatskapelle; Richard Strauss

1947
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Dimitri Mitropoulos

1952
RIAS Symphonieorchester; Karl Böhm
Orchestra Dell’Opera di Stato Bavarese; Konwitschny
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch

1955
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Carl Schuricht

1956
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Dimitri Mitropoulos

1957
Staatskapelle Dresden; Karl Böhm

1962
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Yevgeny Mravinsky

1966
NKH SO, Yuzo Toyama
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolf Kempe

1968
USSR SO, Evgeni Svetlanov

1973
Staatskapelle Dresden; Rudolf Kempe

1975
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta

1977
Gôteborgs Symphoniker; Friedrich Haider

1979
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti

1980
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan

1981
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Davis (date according to Wikipedia)

1982
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Norman Del Mar

1983
Philadelphia Orchestra; André Previn
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege; Pierre Bartholomée

1985
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam; Bernard Haitink

1987
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Järvi

1988
Cleveland Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; Horst Stein

1989
Minnesota Orchestra; Edo de Waart
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; Herbert Blomstedt
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn

1990
NDR Symphony Orchestra; Takashi Asahina
London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

1991
European Community Youth Orchestra; James Judd
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Mariss Jansons

1992
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim

1993
Staatskapelle Dresden; Guiseppi Sinopoli

1994
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Zdenek Košler

1996
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
L’Orchestra de la Suisse Romande: Eliahu Inbal
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra; Emil Tabakov

1997
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta

1998
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Lorin Maazel
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden; Guiseppi Sinopoli (DVD)
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Andreas Delfs

1999
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy

2000
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann

2001
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Gerard Schwarz

2002
Tonhalle Orchestra; David Zinman

2004
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Andrew Litton
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Saccani

2005
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester; Franz Welser-Möst
Staatskapelle Weimer; Antoni Wit
Dresdner Philharmonic; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

2006
Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin’ Kent Nagano (DVD)
Staatsorchester Braunschweig; Jonas Alber


2007
Staatskapelle Dresden; Fabio Luisi
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
Orchestre National de France; Kurt Masur
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln; Semyon Bychkov

2008
London Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Kazimierz Kord
Pittsburg Symphony; Marek Janowski
Residentie Orchestra Den Hague; Neeme Järvi (DVD)

2009
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Marcello Rota

2010
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons
Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck, Roman Brogli-Sacher
Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra; Edo de Waart
Orchestre der Tiroler Festpiele Erl, Gustav Kuhn
Philharmonisches Orchester des Theaters Altenburg – Gera; Gabriel Feltz
Philadelphia Orchestra; Charles Dutoit

2011
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann (DVD/Blu-ray)

2012
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Frank Shipway

2013
Saito Kinen Orchestra; Daniel Harding
Tokyo Metropolitan SO, Jakub Hrusa

[Richard Tarleton]

Thanks alpen. My friend p.martel has sent me an off-air recording of the BBC NOW performance in Cardiff the other week (which I attended), and it still sounds splendid. Otherwise I have Haitink/Concertgebouw on LP and Thielmann/VPO on CD. What a thrilling work.

[HighlandDougie]

Forgive me, EA, for being an anorak but I came across this while looking for new SACDs:

http://www.amazon.de/Mountains-Worlds-Soul-Flight-Scriabin/dp/B00795C6QK/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341695495&sr=1-1-fkmr1

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and, hot off the presses:

http://www.col-legno.com/index_eng.asp?cat=1070&detail=2190

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Forgive me, EA, for being an anorak but I came across this while looking for new SACDs:

http://www.amazon.de/Mountains-World...5&sr=1-1-fkmr1

Many thanks, but I'm a bit confused by what is being played and who is playing it. Are you able to fill in any details?

... and, hot off the presses:

http://www.col-legno.com/index_eng.a...70&detail=2190

Thanks again for this one. I now have it on order.

[HighlandDougie]

Many apologies, EA, not quite sure why the link didn't work (I probably miscopied it) but it's on the Musicaphon label and features the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Roman Brogli-Sacher. I originally found it on the jpc.de website, then on amazon.de (where it's cheaper). I'll try this link and hope that it works this time

http://www.cantate.de/Orchestra/Mountain-Worlds-Soul-Flight::250.html

Interesting looking series of discs of live performances from the orchestra, including the Scriabin/Strauss

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Many apologies, EA, not quite sure why the link didn't work (I probably miscopied it) but it's on the Musicaphon label and features the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Roman Brogli-Sacher. I originally found it on the jpc.de website, then on amazon.de (where it's cheaper). I'll try this link and hope that it works this time

http://www.cantate.de/Orchestra/Mountain-Worlds-Soul-Flight::250.html

Interesting looking series of discs of live performances from the orchestra, including the Scriabin/Strauss

I've tried a couple of times to order this CD, but every time I click on "confirm order", it crashes. Has anyone else had any luck with this site?

[HighlandDougie]

EA

I can't get the cut and paste to work but if you try www.jpc.de and type in strauss eine alpensinfonie lubeck you should find it. At the time of posting, i think from a cursory glance that they have 1 copy in stock.

HD

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks, HD. However Bryn has very kindly pointed me in the direction of an Amazon site stocking the CD, so I now await its arrival.

But thanks for all your help - in particular, making me aware of its very existence.

[umslopogaas]

EA

Here's one more to add to your list:

USSR SO cond. Evgeni Svetlanov. Russian Melodiya LP C10 20369 008, sleeve dated 1968. The sleeve notes are all in Russian, except for a small section in English singing the praises of Svetlanov.

I've pencilled LIVE on the back of the sleeve next to "Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire on May 5, 1968."