Richard Strauss - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra CD

UPC: 028948330805 

MPN: 4833080 

Brand Name: DECCA Classics

Overview

This 2019 Decca Classics release features Riccardo Chailly conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a powerful program of Richard Strauss’s symphonic masterpieces: Also sprach Zarathustra, Tod und Verklärung, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, and Salome’s Tanz der sieben Schleier.

The album highlights Strauss’s genius for orchestral color and drama, with Chailly’s interpretation praised for its intensity and refinement. Recorded with world-class musicians, this CD captures both the grandeur and intimate details of Strauss’s late Romantic sound world.

Product Features

• Format: CD, Album
• Release Year: 2019
• Total Timing: 85:17
• Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
• Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
• Genre: Classical
• Style: Romantic / Late Romantic Symphonic Works
• Label: Decca Music Group Limited

Interesting Facts

• Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophical novel, is world-famous for its “Sunrise” introduction, popularized in Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Tod und Verklärung (1889) portrays the struggle of a dying man, ending in a vision of transfiguration, reflecting Strauss’s fascination with life and death.
• Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (1895) captures the mischief of the German folk trickster Till Eulenspiegel, with playful orchestral writing.
• Salome’s Tanz der sieben Schleier (1905) is one of Strauss’s most sensual and exotic orchestral scenes, taken from his opera Salome.
• The performance was praised by Neue Zürcher Zeitung: “Riccardo Chailly gloried in intense subtleties and let the orchestral palette radiate superbly.”

Track Listing

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (34:12)

1. Einleitung: Sonnenaufgang – 1:50
2. Von den Hinterweltlern – 3:43
3. Von der großen Sehnsucht – 2:09
4. Von den Freuden und Leidenschaften – 2:12
5. Das Grablied – 2:20
6. Von der Wissenschaft – 4:18
7. Der Genesende – 5:15
8. Das Tanzlied (violin: Raphael Christ) – 7:38
9. Nachtwanderlied – 4:42

Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (25:52)

1. Largo – 5:24
2. Allegro molto agitato – 3:53
3. Meno mosso – 8:05
4. Moderato – 8:09

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 (15:35)

Horn: Ivo Gass, Violin: Gregory Ahss

Salomes Tanz der sieben Schleier (“Salome”), Op. 54 (10:02)

Flute: Jacques Zoon, Oboe: Lucas Macias Navarro, Viola: Wolfram Christ

Publishers

• Label: Decca Music Group Limited
• ℗ & © 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
• Distributed by: Universal International Music B.V., Netherlands

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