Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live) (2024)
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Classical | Label: BR Klassik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 237 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:51:08
Classical | Label: BR Klassik
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.