Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (2016) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Richard Strauss – Eine Alpensinfonie – Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:46 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: München, Philharmonie im Gasteig, 13.-15.10.2016

“An Alpine Symphony” is probably Strauss’ most famous symphonic poem. Its content is easily understandable, and the work became especially well-known for its gigantic orchestra. The music is far from heavy-handed, however, with many of the passages orchestrated like chamber music. Like a kind of greeting from the Bavarian Alps, as it were, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and its chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece, and the music of Richard Strauss in general, on the programme of their forthcoming tour of Asia in late 2016.
At the age of just fifteen, the budding composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lost his way during a summer hike on the Heimgarten in the Bavarian Alps, and ended up in a thunderstorm. The next day, he fantasized about the experience on the piano. – Twenty years later, that memory had matured into a concept describing a one-day hike in the form of a symphonic poem, and in 1915 – a further fifteen years later – Strauss finally completed his masterpiece. The hike begins in the darkness before dawn, and after sunrise the ascent goes through a forest, past a stream and a waterfall, through meadows and pastures, and up to a glacier. The hiker then loses his way, and after several risky moments arrives at the summit, where he also experiences a vision. The weather then suddenly worsens, and the descent is accompanied by heavy rain and fierce thunderstorms. The eventful day – summarized in just sixty minutes of music – ends with a sunset, and darkness returns.
The live recording of “Alpine Symphony” concerts planned for October 2016 in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig is enhanced on this latest CD from BR-KLASSIK by the addition of Strauss’ symphonic poem “Death and Transfiguration”, first performed in 1890; the recording here is of concerts performed in Munich in February 2014. – We thus have two very recent interpretations of two of this great German composer’s most important tone poems on one CD.

Tracklist:
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64
1 Nacht
2 Sonnenaufgang
3 Der Anstieg
4 Eintritt in den Wald
5 Wanderung neben dem Bache
6 Am Wasserfall
7 Erscheinung
8 Auf blumige Wiesen
9 Auf der Alm
10 Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen
11 Auf dem Gletscher
12 Gefahrvolle Augenblicke
13 Auf dem Gipfel
14 Vision
15 Nebel steigen auf
16 Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich
17 Elegie
18 Stille vor dem Sturm
18 Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg
20 Sonnenuntergang
21 Ausklang
22 Nacht
23 Tod und Verklärung, op. 24 24:10

Personnel:
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO)
Mariss Jansons, conductor

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