Karajan Gold An Alpine Sym: Richard Strauss: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Nacht
2. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Sonnenaufgang
3. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Der Anstieg
4. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Eintritt in den Wald
5. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Wanderung neben dem Bache
6. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Am Wasserfall
7. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Erscheinung
8. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Auf blumige Wiesen
9. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Auf der Alm
10. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Durch Dickicht und Gestrupp auf Irrwegen
11. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Auf dem Gletscher
12. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Gefahrvolle Augenblicke
13. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Auf dem Gipfel
14. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Vision
15. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Nebel steigen auf
16. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Die Sonne verdustert sich allmahlich
17. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Elegie
18. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Stille vor dem Sturm
19. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg
20. Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64: Sonnenuntergang
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Dernière grande oeuvre symphonique de Richard Strauss, qui se consacrera ensuite presque exclusivement à l'opéra, cette Alpensinfonie (1915) se présente comme une sorte de catalogue d'impressions recueillies par le compositeur au cours d'une randonnée alpestre. Ce programme permet au musicien bavarois de déployer avec brio toutes les ressources de l'orchestre, tout en donnant à l'ensemble une signification mystique proche du panthéisme nietzschéen de son célèbre poème symphonique Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra. --Michel Marmin

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best,really?, Mar 20 2004

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dgg32 (Bremen) - See all my reviews

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I don't think so.Because Karajan hat crossed out some effects!At the end of the "Gewitter" is there no "Blech" sounds at all!Where are they?The only answer we can accept is that,Karajan forgot this part.Shame!!
Except that is the sound a little dry.That is not Karajan's fault but dg's.The early digital recordings are on the risik of the buyer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Mar 11 2004

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Sungu Okan (Istanbul, Istanbul Turkey) - See all my reviews

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This is a must have for any Strauss admirers or collectors.

I think, this work is one of the best compositions of the composer and the work has a marvellous orchestration and colours, too. Scored for a vast ensemble: quadruple woodwinds with bass oboe, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, 20 horns! (8 in orchestra, 12 in offstage), 6 trumpets, 6 trombones, 4 tenor and 2 bass tubas...2 set timpani, several percussions, wind machine, thunder machine, cow bells, celesta, organ, 2 or more harps and at least 60 strings ...!

This work has a programme and be formed in one movement to tells a complete day starts with night theme and ends with the same theme. The story is about a man who living in Alps and he wanted to climb a mountain. Music starts with drakfull night theme in B-flat minor and then there is a long crescendo which arrives the first climax of the work that tells sun rising. And at the end the night theme repeats in B-flat minor again and the work ends with ppp nuance (pianisissimo).

And what a performance, especially majestic The Vision, the Thunder Storm movements are amazing. This is one of the Karajan's last recordings. In this recording, Sabine Meyer (famous clarinettist) was the first clarinet, and this situation shows that, in Karajan's orchestra, this was the first female musician!. And the organist is famous David Bell, was played very well, too.

This is an essential recording and highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Holy smoke, Bullwinkle!!, Dec 1 2003

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OK, fine. Have it your way. Strauss' "Alpine Symphony" isn't the greatest composition he ever gave us.

Only problem is, you'd never know it from this unbelievable recording.

This just shows what can be done with (perhaps) less-than-great music when put in the hands of one of the conducting geniuses of the 20th century.

Astounding. And Deutsche Grammophon needs to be given credit as well. What a recording!