Richard Strauss: Orchestral music

[Roehre]

Thanks ams.

A R Strauss box I like, largely because of the LAPO Mehta big works, possibly my favourite Heldenleben, Also and Sym Dom but also some good Maazel and Dorati.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Strauss-The-Tone-Poems/dp/B00006IU8U/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1364939260&sr=8-4

I think I got it for less than half the current used price. Amazing how many of the Decca boxed sets appear to becoming like hen's teeth!

so, you got it for less than £133.32? A real bargain then

[cloughie]

so, you got it for less than £133.32? A real bargain then

Read my words, Roehre, I said the USED price -I think I paid about £12 actually!

[Nick Armstrong]

Tod und Verklärung

Always been keen on Klaus Tennstedt's version with the LPO (the one coupled with his Four Last Songs with Lucia Popp)

Also Sprach Zarathustra.... Some say that the rest of the tone poem doesn't match the opening 40 seconds but I have to disagree. I find it a fascinating piece.

It sometimes seems like that in inferior performances, but in the best ones (Kempe/Dresden, for instance), I agree the later sections come through as at least as good as the opening. The lilt of the 'Dance-Song' is irresistible in that Dresden performance for example....

Are there any fans of the Sinfonia Domestica out there?

Yes! I enjoy it once in a while. It was on the bill on the only occasion I've heard the Berlin Phil in the Philharmonie - Zubin Mehta conducting - and was splendid... and I think we heard it at the Proms a couple of years back. Some of the tender music is beautiful, and properly played (plenty of Schwung), the final movement is exhilarating

[Roehre]

Read my words, Roehre, I said the USED price -I think I paid about £12 actually!

I know, I know, but this was too beautiful to leave it alone....
Btw, welcome back

[mercia]

It was on the bill on the only occasion I've heard the Berlin Phil in the Philharmonie - Zubin Mehta conducting

are you in the audience here then ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1IFtbwt1pI

[Nick Armstrong]

are you in the audience here then ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1IFtbwt1pI

No, mine was longer ago, in the 90s. I think 'Sinfonia Domestica' is one of Mehta's party pieces. I recall the other half of the programme was Hindemith's 'Mathis der Maler' (didn't impress me then any more than it has at any other time )

Interesting to see that clip though, thanks mercia

[Julien Sorel]

I was heavily into Metamorphosen some years ago and acquired / tried most...

Extensive testing led to a surprising 'winner' for me - the performance by the Vienna Phil under .... André Previn (Phillips, nla.). It displaced the Karajan in my allegiance, it seems to let the music speak and breathe for itself more, to my ears.

A thanks for the recommendation for Previn's recording and the endorsement of other forum members: I found a very good condition and reasonably priced second-hand copy which I listened to last night, and I agree it's a special performance (haven't heard the wind serenade yet).

[Nick Armstrong]

A thanks for the recommendation for Previn's recording and the endorsement of other forum members: I found a very good condition and reasonably priced second-hand copy which I listened to last night, and I agree it's a special performance (haven't heard the wind serenade yet).

Delighted to hear that, Julien

[BBMmk2]

I love the Sinf Domestica! nI* havbe HvKI condiucting it and I am going to be that boxed set of Kempe's Richard Strauss recordings very soon!!

[amateur51]

I love the Sinf Domestica! nI* havbe HvKI condiucting it and I am going to be that boxed set of Kempe's Richard Strauss recordings very soon!!

I've heard of identifying with certain music BBM but that does seem to be taking things to extremes

[Thropplenoggin]

I've heard of identifying with certain music BBM but that does seem to be taking things to extremes

RRP: priceless.

[Beef Oven]

I love the Sinf Domestica! nI* havbe HvKI condiucting it and I am going to be that boxed set of Kempe's Richard Strauss recordings very soon!!

I wanna be that box too!

[Nick Armstrong]

I've heard of identifying with certain music BBM but that does seem to be taking things to extremes

I was going to make the same point (though less elegantly) but the phone went...

Bbm: Don't go changin' ! As ever your posts are the virtual equivalent of a round yellow object in the sky!

[amateur51]

I was going to make the same point (though less elegantly) but the phone went...

Bbm: Don't go changin' ! As ever your posts are the virtual equivalent of a round yellow object in the sky!

[BBMmk2]

I've heard of identifying with certain music BBM but that does seem to be taking things to extremes

I am priceless!!