Originally posted by teamsaint
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Richard Strauss: Orchestral music
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Blimey, that's great mercia - I don't think I've ever seen him conduct.
K."Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostOn the relative merits of the two Kempe EA recordings, my two pennyworth would be that the RPO version is much better recorded, but the Dresden orchestra's playing is more polished. I could post my rather long reviews on each of them, but that would be almost be like spamming.
Cheers. K."Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle
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Originally posted by Karafan View PostI, for one, would appreciate seeing your reviews EA - by PM if you can't link to them...?
Cheers. K.
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Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostThis doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet; any thoughts?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Stra...I1J1G1VFGV59KJ
Yes, this is a splendid disc of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensymphonie and an impressive performance of his much underated early tone poem Macbeth. The disc is certainly worth hearing.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostHiya visualnickmos,
Yes, this is a splendid disc of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensymphonie and an impressive performance of his much underated early tone poem Macbeth. The disc is certainly worth hearing.
there aren't that many apart from MacBeth: Ariadne, München-Gedächtniswalzer and the Oboe concerto are the only ones which immediately come to mind.
There are of course ofsprings: Metamorphosen for 23 string as string quintet, the reworkings of Bürger als Edelmann, Capriccio's Mondscheinmusik taken from Krämerspiegel op.66, Rosenkavalier-film music, the orchestrated original piano songs. But these are arrangements, not (partly) re-composed works.
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostEA: what are your thoughts on Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orch. and Bychkov/DR Sinfonieorchester Köln? The latter is certainly very underrated.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostJansons: I'm not impressed with it - rather a routine performance, but the Bychkov is very good. He performed it at the Proms not so long ago.
I'd certainly be up for reading any immense BaL-type comparison you might be in the process of writing up . I've just ordered Haitink's 1985 Philips recording with the Concergebouw having only heard samples. It was a cheap s/h copy in 'v.good condition'. It seems to be well liked in general. I'll also be procuring Shipway and Thielemann when funds allow it. I can certainly see how you've come to love the work - it's certainly now high on my 'to experience live' list.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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