STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Juan
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Composer or Director: Richard Strauss
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Orfeo
Magazine Review Date: 07/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: C878 141A
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Also sprach Zarathustra, 'Thus spake Zarathustra' |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss, Composer |
Don Juan |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss, Composer |
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Andris Nelsons, Conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss, Composer |
Author: Rob Cowan
The couplings are equally engaging. I would have preferred a little more woodwind detail around the very start of Don Juan but the romantic second subject (2'28"), taken very broadly, is beautifully played, burning to a superb climax. Nelsons’s Till Eulenspiegel frolics and cavorts without a care for whoever gets in his way (note the extremely vivid timps at 7'52"), while the coda is full of tenderness. All in all, a rewarding and musically satisfying trio of performances, as exciting as any from the last 10 years or so, and for the most part superbly recorded.
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