Richard Strauss: Orchestral music

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20568

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    EA, Is this worth a go, do you think?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strauss-Alpi...4571933&sr=1-1
    I've kept my word and will send you a "review" by PM in a few minutes' time.

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    • Karafan
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      • Nov 2010
      • 786

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post

      Blimey, that's great mercia - I don't think I've ever seen him conduct.
      How odd to think that within two years of that he would be dead at the age of 65.

      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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      • Karafan
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        • Nov 2010
        • 786

        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        On 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.
        I, for one, would appreciate seeing your reviews EA - by PM if you can't link to them...?

        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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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
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          • Nov 2010
          • 20568

          Originally posted by Karafan View Post
          I, for one, would appreciate seeing your reviews EA - by PM if you can't link to them...?

          Cheers. K.
          It's very much work in progress. In the bag so far are Fried, Strauss x 2, Bohm x 2, Mitropoulos x 2, Konwitschny, Schuricht, Mravinsky, Kempe x 2, Mehta (LAPO), Solti, Karajan, Davis, Del Mar, Ashkenazy x 2, Barenboim, Masur (Flemish), Shipway.

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          • BBMmk2
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            • Nov 2010
            • 20908

            Carl Schricht? I must look into this conductor more closely?
            Don’t cry for me
            I go where music was born

            J S Bach 1685-1750

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            • visualnickmos
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              • Nov 2010
              • 3609

              This doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet; any thoughts?

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              • Stanfordian
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                • Dec 2010
                • 9308

                Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post
                This doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet; any thoughts?

                http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Stra...I1J1G1VFGV59KJ
                Hiya 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.

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                • visualnickmos
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                  • Nov 2010
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                  Thank you for your recco. on this.
                  I may have to add it to my little collection of "Alpens"!

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                  • Roehre

                    Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                    Hiya 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.
                    MacBeth one of the very few works RS revised.
                    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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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20568

                      Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
                      EA: what are your thoughts on Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orch. and Bychkov/DR Sinfonieorchester Köln? The latter is certainly very underrated.
                      Jansons: 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.

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                      • Thropplenoggin
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                        • Mar 2013
                        • 1587

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        Jansons: 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.
                        Thanks, EA.

                        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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                        • BBMmk2
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          EA, what's your all time favourite? :)
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • teamsaint
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                            • Nov 2010
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                            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                            EA, what's your all time favourite? :)
                            I think that was the question nobody else dared to ask, BBM !!
                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20568

                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              EA, what's your all time favourite? :)
                              Well it isn't Karajan...

                              But with 74 to choose from, how is it possible narrow it down to one?

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                              • Roehre

                                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                                Well it isn't Karajan...

                                But with 74 to choose from, how is it possible narrow it down to one?
                                drawing straws? bingo?

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