Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
15 used & new from £7.98
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony

~ Christian Thieleman
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Price: £12.69 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

9 new from £9.09 6 used from £7.98

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Mozart - The Piano Concertos /MITSUKO UCHIDA

Mozart - The Piano Concertos /MITSUKO UCHIDA

~ Mitsuko Uchida
5.0 out of 5 stars (3)  £29.98
Karajan Symphony Edition

Karajan Symphony Edition

~ Berliner Philharmoniker
4.6 out of 5 stars (7)  £59.98
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD (21 May 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B00005AAFA
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 94,964 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in this category:

    #19 in  Music > Opera & Vocal > Opera > By Title > Die Rosenkavalier

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
Wiener Staatsoper
   www.VIENNACLASSIC.com    Saison 2009/2010 Sichern Sie Ihre Karten Jetzt! 
Gold & Silver Bullion
   www.BullionUK.com    Krugerrands, Maples, Eagles, Lowest Prices in UK, 24hr Delivery, 
  
 

Track Listings

1. Nacht
2. Sonnenaufgang
3. Der Anstieg
4. Eintritt in den Wald-Wanderung neben dem Bache
5. Am Wasserfall - Erscheinung
6. Auf blumige Wiesen
7. Auf der Alm
8. Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen
9. Auf dem Gletscher
10. Gefahrvolle Augenblicke
11. Auf dem Gipfel
12. Vision - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
13. Nebel steigen auf - Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich - Elegie - Stille vor dem Sturm - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
14. Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
15. Sonnenuntergang - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
16. Ausklang - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
17. Nacht - Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann, Anton Holzapfel
18. Con molto agitato
19. Allegro molto
20. Tempo di Valse, assai comodo da primo
See all 22 tracks on this disc
On this CD:
  1. Eine Alpensinfonie
    Composed by Richard Strauss
    Conducted by Christian Thielemann

  2. (Der) Rosenkavalier
    Composed by Richard Strauss
    Conducted by Christian Thielemann

Product Description

BBC Music Magazine
The strange case of Christian Thielemann is accentuated in his conducting of a composer close to his heart, Richard Strauss. This, after all, is a man who can make Elektra sound like the composer's ideal of 'fairy music by Mendelssohn' on the one hand, and Rosenkavalier like suet pudding on the other, as the grisly pacing of the trio within the music-minus-three context of the Suite on this disc attests. Never mind the merits of this concert-hall compromise here; it makes a generous sweet to follow the main course of the Alpine Symphony in an extraordinary if not always lovable Vienna performance. Taking a good seven minutes longer to get up the mountain and back down than Strauss the conductor in his 1941 recording, Thielemann doesn't always linger where you might expect - namely on the summit or in the sunset epilogue, which are not among the finest things in this interpretation. His studied approach enlightens the interplay between solo and collective strings before the approach to a spectacularly cascading waterfall, the ingenuity of the muted brass-writing as our mountaineers find themselves 'lost in thicket and undergrowth', and above all in the agonising suspense before a brutal storm. Unfortunately the balances aren't always happy within the performance itself - witness the smothering of first-trombone contours in the mountain theme at the start - or in the artificial recording, which as often with this thickly scored work assaults the listener mercilessly. Philips engineers got it right for Ozawa and the orchestra back in 1996, a performance far handsomer to live with, if missing some of the knife-edge details in which Thielemann delights.

Performance ****
Sound ***

© BBC Music Magazine 2001

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A sonic and interpretative feast, 19 April 2009
By Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)      
Well, responses to music are notoriously subjective but I am mystified by some of the criticisms I have read of this disc; if you were to trust them you would think that it is a sub-standard dud in almost every way. It seems to me that, for example, both the official Amazon.com reviewer Dan Davis and the BBC Music Magazine back in 2001 got it totally wrong. However, as is often the case, I am with trusted reviewers such as the Santa Fe listener on this one: it is a magnificent, newly thought-out, thrilling performance that elicited a host of encomiums from the Viennese music press who heard it live in October 2000. It has all of the advantages of a live performance when things "click" and virtually none of the attendant disadvantages; the audience are very well behaved and the recording engineers did a great job in bringing out the multiple layers of this vast work. Yes, if you compare it with studio recordings occasionally a line might be a little too recessed or an individual instrument submerged, but it strikes me as absurd to moan that the wind machine is sometimes inaudible or that the balance is artificial; it sounds to me like a faithful reproduction of the ambience in the Grosse Saal. All I know is that the disc sounds fabulous on my Bose, on speakers, or through Sennheiser headphones and I was bowled over by the virtuosity of the Vienna Philharmoniker (virtually flawless live; no re-takes or splicing here), the subtlety and grandeur of Thielemann's conception and the brilliance and immediacy of the sound. It goes straight to the top of my list of favourite recordings (alongside the BPO/Mehta and the Weimar Staatskapelle/Wit versions) - not just of this piece but of live recordings in general.

I assume that the criticisms of the "Rosenkavalier" suite here are the natural corollary to already having taken against Thielemann's interpretative style in Strauss; again, I loved the detail and flexibility of tempi in his account. He seems to me, in his use of rubato, to be daring to recapture a vanished style of conducting. Those who don't like it are free to seek out those many modern conductors who espouse the more mechanistic, homogenised and metronomic approach so widespread today.
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Health & Beauty at Amazon.co.uk

Elemis Resurface and Renew Skin Care Gift Set of 4 Products
From soap to shavers, massagers to mascara, stock up on your daily essentials or truly pamper yourself.

›Discover Health & Beauty

  

Let Olay Amaze You

Olay Total Effects Day Moisturiser SPF15 50ml
Amazon.co.uk sells all your favourite ranges from Olay, including Regenerist and Total Effects.

›Discover Olay at Amazon.co.uk

  

Train Hard...Play Hard

Nike, Gola, Converse, and more
Gear up with up to 60% off athletic and outdoor shoes.

›Shop now

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates