Orchestral, Strauss, R (composer)
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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New. Edward Gardner Conducts Strauss: An Alpine Symphony - Metamorphosen
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[The Summit] is majestically judged by Gardner and the LPO, before descending into the storm's maelstrom and a rushed descent back into night. The sound quality, here as in the subsequent Metamorphosen,... —
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[Zarathustra] Karajan’s 1973 version is definitive in a way that few recordings are: a seamless meeting of minds between composer and conductor. —
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica & Die Tageszeiten
RecommendedRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
those who don't know the least often heard of the symphonic poems should be amazed by Marek Janowski's sympathetic, detailed interpretation; but even Straussians don't often get to hear Die... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Strauss’s revision (in 1883) may be masterly, but his first try is impressive. In this persuasive performance by Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem, the early work bursts into irrepressible life…There... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. R. Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration & Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's interpretations have huge personality, and mostly in the right way. He's not averse to Stokowski-style touchings-up if they help the drama...Honeck likes to underline something pathological... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Authoritative from the first bar’s fleshy bass, Antonio Pappano’s bel canto approach to Strauss’s mock-epic hero cultivates beauty of sound even in usually bombastically noisy stretches such... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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The Alpensinfonie is no longer a rarity on disc, but there are still grounds for preferring the famous Karajan version to subsequent digital rivals, especially in this successful remastering.... —
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Building a Library, January 2011, First Choice
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Building A Library, November 2021, Recommended Recording
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Building A Library, August 2025, Recommended Recording
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a virtuosic Cleveland Orchestra, with shrilling clarinets outstanding, responds brilliantly to Franz Welser-Möst’s justifiable hell-for-leather tour of the medieval prankster’s shortlived exploits...... —
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Record Review, 18th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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