Composer: Richard Strauss
Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Decca
Catalogue: 4786422
Release: 2014
Size: 911 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233
01. Nacht
02. Sonnenaufgang
03. Der Anstieg
04. Eintritt in den Wald
05. Wanderung neben dem Bache
06. Am Wasserfall – 7. Erscheinung
07. Erscheinung
08. Auf blumige Wiesen
09. 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
19. Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg
20. Sonnenuntergang
21. Ausklang
22. Nacht
This sonically spectacular recording of Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony was made with the internationally hand-picked players of the Saito Kinen Orchestra and recorded at the Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto, at the heart of the Japan Alps. Daniel Harding was specially invited to conduct the orchestra in the absence of Seiji Ozawa who, at that time, was still recuperating from treatment for cancer.
Voted among the World’s Greatest Orchestras by Gramophone magazine, the Saito Kinen Orchestra boasts the best Japanese players from the leading orchestras of Europe and North America as well as selected wind and brass principals from Berlin, Vienna, Philadelphia and Boston among others. It is one of the world’s elite festival orchestras
Demanding an unprecedented orchestra of 125 players, the Alpine Symphony was the last of Strauss’ great series of tone poems. Specially released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’ birth and the centenary of the symphony’s composition, this is the first DECCA recording since 1988 and utilizes the latest 24 bit 96khz technology for a truly spectacular sound.