Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Zdenek Kosler – R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra – Salome’s Dance (1988/2014) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Zdenek Kosler – R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra – Salome’s Dance (1988/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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Czech conductor Zdeněk Košler leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra on this 1989 album featuring Richard Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, one of the most recognizable pieces in all of classical music. Strauss makes use of an unusually large orchestra, deployed in the most varied way, while there is a tonal ambiguity that remains to the final bars.

„Strauss ‘career as the most important German opera composer of his time took some radical turns. His first successful operas, Salome and Elektra, were decadent and lurid sex-and-violence tales based on the Bible (via Oscar Wilde) and Greek myth. From there, always relishing startling the public, Strauss veered 180 degrees to Der Rosenkavalier, a silvery, perfumed comedy set in Mozart’s time. The Marschallin, an older woman (35! gasp!) who philosophically accepts her young lover’s crush on an even younger woman, is a role most every diva yearns to make her own, culminating in a lush, bittersweet three-soprano finale to die for. Strauss paints this upper-class milieu by weaving elegant, opulent waltzes through his score; these have become favorite orchestral show-off pieces, as you’ll hear in Zdenek Kosler’s richly ebullient reading. (Also on this disc, there’s a bit of Salome, her over-the-top ‘Dance of the Seven Veils.“)“ (Gavin Borchert, Wondering Sound)

Tracklist:

Also sprach Zarathustra Op. 30
1. I. Prelude 01:49
2. II. Of the Afterworldsmen 03:06
3. III. Of the Great Longing 01:59
4. IV. Of Joys and Passions 02:10
5. V. The Funeral 02:25
6. VI. Song of Science 04:08
7. VII. The Convalescent 05:34
8. VIII. The Dance Song 04:11
9. IX. The Night Song 03:49
10. X. The Night-Wanderer’s Song 04:05

11. Salome’s Dance, TrV 215a 09:45
12. Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227: Waltz Sequence No. 1 12:05

Personnel:
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Zdeněk Košler, conductor

Recorded at the Reduta Hall in Bratislava from 18th to 20th October, 1988 and on 23rd January, 1989

2xHD Mastering: René Laflamme and Anne-Marie Sylvestre
2xHD Executive Producer: André Perry

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