Composer: Richard Strauss
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: LSO
Release: 2010
Size: 965 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64
01. I. Nacht – Sonnenaufgang
02. II. Der Anstieg – Eintritt in den Wald
03. III. Wanderung neben dem Bache – Am Wasserfall – Erscheinung – Auf blumigen Wiesen
04. IV. Auf der Alm – Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen
05. V. Auf dem Gletscher – Gefahrvolle Augenblicke
06. VI. Auf dem Gipfel
07. VII. Vision – Nebel steigen auf – Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich – Elegie
08. VIII. Stille vor den Sturm – Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg – Sonnenuntergang
09. IX. Ausklang
10. X. Nacht
LSO Live is thrilled to welcome Bernard Haitink back for his first recording with the LSO since his internationally acclaimed Beethoven cycle in 2006. Eine Alpensinfonie was recorded in June 2008 during Haitink’s Strauss/Mozart series with the LSO. In his Alpine Symphony Strauss recounts an attempt to conquer the summit of an Alpine mountain. He infuses the score with numerous instrumental colours and rich combinations of sounds, evoking the images and events that take place on the trek. It was to be one of his final large-scale orchestral works and shows the last great German Romantic composer at the pinnacle of his art. Haitink has also recorded Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the LSO and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Anthony Dean Griffey for release on LSO Live later in 2010. He will conduct the Royal Concergebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam during early-2010 followed in June 2010 by a complete Beethoven symphony cycle in concert with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. LSO Live’s other recent releases include Prokofiev’s complete score for the ballet Romeo & Juliette conducted by Valery Gergiev. In March the label releases Gergiev’s recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.