BaL 22.01.11 - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

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    #16
    William Mival. Hmm, didnt much enjoy his Bruckner 5 selection.

    Each to their own etc ...

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      #17
      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
      Chance for you to reclaim your lost Kauto money, Alison, I'll bet my shirt on RPO/Kempe.
      Actually Ive never heard that one. I do always love my London orchestras, with a particular affection
      for the RPO, so I wouldnt go all grumpy if that were selected

      I should get that one anway really.

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        #18
        Sorry for my bloomer Petrushka. I should have known better, seeing I'm also a great Haitink fan. Two in one day (the other was a mistype on another thread!). I'm slipping.

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          #19
          Originally posted by doversoul View Post
          I very much enjoyed the performance in the 2009 Proms by Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Fabio Luisi. I don’t know the work at all well but I thought this performance created a wonderful atmosphere for the occasion. Or it may have been the other way round. Either way, I thought it was a memorable performance.
          I was there too and it was a fine performance, with incredible momentum. The only disappointment was the lack of off-stage horns, which (I understand, though I wasn't there) were used in the 2010 Prom performance of the same work.

          Here's a useful list of just about every available version:

          This page lists all recordings of Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 (An Alpine Symphony) by Richard Strauss (1864–1949).
          Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 16-01-11, 17:29. Reason: Website added

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            #20
            Originally posted by Alison View Post

            That said, I havent checked who is reviewing.
            It's William Mival

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              #21
              To put another slant on it, which is your favourite COVER for the Alpine Sympony ??

              E A, your avatar looks rather like the Philips artwork for Haitink.

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                #22
                To whet your appetite for BaL, here's a snippet from a live performance by the BPO conducted by Miles Malleson, oh I apologise, Semyon Bychkov

                Full-length concert: http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/11/?a=youtube&c=trueRichard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie ("Auf dem Gipfel") / Semyon Bychkov, c...


                If an important criterion is that the performance should blow your socks off, I have to report that my slippers wind up behind my computer and my socks don't come back to earth for at least 4 hours whenever I watch this clip

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by Alison View Post
                  To put another slant on it, which is your favourite COVER for the Alpine Sympony ??

                  E A, your avatar looks rather like the Philips artwork for Haitink.
                  There aren't many that don't include a picture of a mountain (Kempe/RPO, Thielemann, Jansons and Strauss himself don't) and on that basis I think the VPO/Previn is especially good. The Dutton CD featuring the 1941 Strauss recording carries a painting of the composer at the conductors podium in 1929 by Wilhelm Victor Krausz. For avoiding the obvious I like this one best.

                  Last edited by Petrushka; 16-01-11, 18:48. Reason: added link
                  "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    #24
                    No one has mentioned the SNO under Neemi Jarvi on Chandos yet so I'll vote for that one if only as a reminder of the time I heard them play it in the Usher Hall in the 80's with every horn player in Scotland employed!

                    I actually played in the Scottish premiere of this work in the 80's when I was a young violin student.

                    Super piece.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                      There aren't many that don't include a picture of a mountain (Kempe/RPO, Thielemann, Jansons and Strauss himself don't)...
                      The Kempe CD issue does have the dullest cover, but the RCA original had a magnificent picture of the Matterhorn. Not very authentic though , as Strauss's tone poem depicts the Bavarian Alps.

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        The Kempe CD issue does have the dullest cover, but the RCA original had a magnificent picture of the Matterhorn. Not very authentic though , as Strauss's tone poem depicts the Bavarian Alps.
                        I never had the Kempe LP but I do remember seeing the album cover in a catalogue. I went to Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1987 and saw the Zugspitze. I also went to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden where, despite the 80 degree temperature down below, there was snow and ice. The scenery was simply breathtaking, beyond belief awesome and I am reminded of that day when I listen to the Alpensinfonie even though I actually consider it to be more of a 'birth to death ' piece than a nature ramble.
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                          #27
                          I enthusiastically second amateur51's recommendation of that BPO/Bychkov extract on youtube: those horns! Those contrabass trombones (2 of them)!! Utterly magnificent.

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                            #28
                            Thanks for highlighting this, EA. I will always be grateful to you for bringing this fantastic work to my attention back in 2009. Prior to that I knew little Strauss, apart from the oboe concerto and the inevitable Also Sprach. I attended the 2010 prom - I was spellbound (although it did not come over well on the radio due to poor mixing). There were no off-stage horns in 2009, were there?
                            I don't own a recording yet - let's see what is recommended.
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by ostuni View Post
                              I enthusiastically second amateur51's recommendation of that BPO/Bychkov extract on youtube: those horns! Those contrabass trombones (2 of them)!! Utterly magnificent.
                              Agreed. It's enough to make me pay up for a day ticket on the BPO Digital Concert Hall so I can watch the entire performance from the archive.
                              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                                #30
                                A piece I know very little of and need to know better, I think I have a recording by zinman out of a box set of orchestral works, sounds ok but again, don't really know the work... Yet!

                                I would like to hear it live before listening to it on record, get to know it bests then!

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