Strauss Conducts Strauss, Mozart, And Beethoven

Richard Strauss

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Staatskapelle Berlin Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Staatskapelle Berlin Cornelius: Der Barbier von Baghdad: Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543 Staatskapelle Berlin Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 Staatskapelle Berlin Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter' Staatskapelle Berlin Die Zauberflöte, K620: Overture Staatskapelle Berlin Strauss, R: Don Juan, Op. 20 Staatskapelle Berlin Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 Staatskapelle Berlin Intermezzo, Op. 72: Symphonic Interlude Act One Staatskapelle Berlin Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils Berliner Philharmoniker Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 Staatskapelle Berlin Don Quixote, Op. 35 Georg Kniestedt (violin), Karl Reitz (viola), Enrico Mainardi (cello) Staatskapelle Berlin Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op. 60 Staatskapelle Berlin Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Placidus Morasch (violin) Bayerisches Staatsorchester Japanische Festmusik Bayerisches Staatsorchester Waltz Sequence No. 1 (from Der Rosenkavalier) Staatskapelle Berlin Waltz Sequence No. 2 (from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59) Bayerisches Staatsorchester Don Quixote, Op. 35 Placidus Morasch (violin), Philipp Haass (viola), Oswald Uhl (cello) Bayerisches Staatsorchester Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Richard Strauss (piano) Die Nacht, Op. 10 No. 3 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Richard Strauss (piano) Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Richard Strauss (piano) Das Geheimnis, Op. 17 No. 3 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Richard Strauss (piano) Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer: Overture Berliner Philharmoniker Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 Berliner Philharmoniker Weber: Euryanthe Overture Berliner Philharmoniker

Strauss sits alongside Mahler as a leading conductor – as well as composer - of his age, winning plaudits and support even before the age of 20 from contemporaneous luminaries such as Hans von Bülow. In fact between them, Mahler and Strauss controlled the two most powerful opera houses in the world in their mid-Thirties, with Strauss in Berlin and Mahler in Vienna. This set brings together his major recordings for Polydor/Deutsche Grammophon. Taking his lead from the greatest conductor of late nineteenth century, Hans von Bülow, Strauss sought to make his conducting ‘of compelling necessity borne of the form and content of the work, with no wasted posturing or inauthentic emotion’. This 7CD set allows the full spectrum of his conducting to be admired, from 3 CDs of his own major tone poems to his startlingly modern, almost period-instrument-style Mozart from the early LP era and fascinating recordings of Beethoven’s 5th and 7th Symphonies. Mike Ashman (Gramophone Magazine, February 2014) claims the Overture to ‘Der fliegender Holländer’ (CD6, 1928) is exceptional.

Price: $68.98