Mariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks – R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Mariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks – R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:08 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
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Superlatives should be used sparingly. Nevertheless, there is probably no work in the centuries-old genre of programme music that is easier for listeners to understand than An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. Moreover, no composition in the long series of sonorous descriptions of nature, including bird calls, pastoral sounds and storm effects was probably ever scored for as many instruments as this highly eventful hike through the Werdenfelser Land in Bavaria. No orchestra in the world can, with its salaried musicians alone, present this piece the way Strauss ideally envisioned it and as he proposes in the score: the composer calls for some 130 instrumentalists, including at least 12 horn players and, ideally, even more. And no work that reproduces the realities and phenomena of nature – civilized nature, atmosphere, sunrise and sunset – in music has ever been treated with so much reserve with regard to its actual artistic content as this Alpine Symphony, a latecomer in Strauss’ symphonic work. This over-sensational depiction of what is, ultimately, a mere hike through the mountains sparked several arguments about whether the returns had justified the investment.

Tracklist:
1-01. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Night (1) (Live) (02:52)
1-02. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Sunrise (Live) (01:25)
1-03. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: The Ascent (Live) (02:27)
1-04. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Entry into the Forest (Live) (05:05)
1-05. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Wandering by the Brook (Live) (00:47)
1-06. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: At the Waterfall (Live) (00:16)
1-07. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Apparition (Live) (00:52)
1-08. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: On Flowering Meadows (Live) (01:00)
1-09. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: On the Alpine Pasture (Live) (02:22)
1-10. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Through Thickets and Undergrowth on the Wrong Path (Live) (01:42)
1-11. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: On the Glacier (Live) (01:15)
1-12. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Dangerous Moments (Live) (01:34)
1-13. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: On the Summit (Live) (04:55)
1-14. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Vision (Live) (03:36)
1-15. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Mists Rise (Live) (00:19)
1-16. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: The Sun Gradually Becomes Obscured (Live) (00:52)
1-17. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Elegy (Live) (01:48)
1-18. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Calm Before the Storm (Live) (02:54)
1-19. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Thunder and Tempest, Descent (Live) (04:21)
1-20. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Sunset (Live) (02:22)
1-21. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, Trv 233: Quiet Settles (Live) (06:05)
1-22. Mariss Jansons – Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233: Night (2) (Live) (02:10)

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