Strauss: Tone Poems

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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/11/1994
  • Label: Decca
  • UPC: 028944061826
  • Catalog Number: 440618
  • Sales rank: 28,393

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1–6 Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 40 (TrV 190) - Richard Strauss & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (44:12)
    Composed byRichard Strauss
    Conducted byGeorg Solti
    Performed byGeorg Solti
    1. 1The Hero
    2. 2The Hero's Adversaries
    3. 3The Hero's Helpmate
    4. 4The Hero's Battlefield
    5. 5The Hero's Work Of Peace
    6. 6The Hero's Retreat From The World And Fulfillment
  2. 7–15 Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176) - Richard Strauss & Chicago Symphony Orchestra (30:47)
    Composed byRichard Strauss
    Conducted byGeorg Solti
    Performed byChicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
    1. 7Sunrise
    2. 8Of The People of The Unseen World
    3. 9Of Joys and Passions
    4. 10Of The Great Longing
    5. 11Dirge
    6. 12Of Science
    7. 13The Convalescent
    8. 14The Dance Song
    9. 15The Song of The Night-Wanderer
Disc 2
  1. 1 Don Juan, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 20 (TrV 156) - Richard Strauss & Chicago Symphony Orchestra (17:40)
    Composed byRichard Strauss
    Conducted byGeorg Solti
    Performed byChicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
  2. 2 Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 28 (TrV 171) - Richard Strauss & Chicago Symphony Orchestra (15:08)
    Composed byRichard Strauss
    Conducted byGeorg Solti
    Performed byChicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
  3. 3–22 Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony) for orchestra, Op. 64 (TrV 233) - Richard Strauss & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (43:37)
    Composed byRichard Strauss
    Conducted byGeorg Solti
    Performed byBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
    1. 3Night
    2. 4Sunrise
    3. 5The ascent
    4. 6Entry into the wood/Wandering by the brook
    5. 7At the waterfall
    6. 8Movement 1
    7. 9On flowering meadows
    8. 10On Alpine pasture
    9. 11Lost in thicket and undergrowth
    10. 12On the glacier
    11. 13Dangerous moments/On the summit
    12. 14Vision
    13. 15Mists rise
    14. 16The sun is gradually obscured
    15. 17Elegy
    16. 18Movement 2
    17. 19Thunder and tempest descent
    18. 20Sunset
    19. 21Fading tones
    20. 22Night
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Album Credits

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Georg Solti Primary Artist
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