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Richard Strauss | "Alpine Symphony"
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Duration: 55:32
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ASCENDING THE HEIGHTS – AN UNFORGETTABLE ALPINE JOURNEY
With its epic sweep and grandeur and compelling drama, there has rarely been such a spine-tingling and vivid depiction of nature as found in Richard Strauss’s magnificent tone poem, An Alpine Symphony. Calling for gargantuan orchestral forces, this lavishly illustrated journey is Strauss’s crowning orchestral achievement. Using a vast musical canvas packed with vivid and exquisite details, it’s a bold, optimistic and passionate work, unleashing ecstatic blazes of orchestral colour alongside moments of awestruck contemplation in a continuous narrative of 22 sections, which Strauss threads together with his usual mastery and aplomb.