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Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)

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Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)

Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 59:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 454 448-2 | Recorded: 1996

Die Wiener Philharmoniker sind häufig so etwas wie eine sichere Bank für R. Strauss - und für die Alpensymphonie allemal (man denke nur an die phantastische Aufnahme unter Thielemann). Und auch hier gelingt ihnen - unter dem sehr engagierten Dirigat von S. Ozawa eine herausragende Interpretation.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Orchestre de Paris - Richard Strauss: Elektra [Blu-Ray] (2014)

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Orchestre de Paris - Richard Strauss: Elektra [Blu-Ray] (2014)

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Orchestre de Paris - Richard Strauss: Elektra [Blu-Ray] (2014)
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26928 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 110 min | 30,7 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4398 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | BelAir | Sub: German, French, English, Italian, Spanish

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in Aix-en-Provence. This production is leaded by three amazing singers: the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius gave a tremendous, never-to-be-forgotten account of the title role, Waltraud Meier portrays a human and chilling Clytemnestra and Adrianne Pieczonka is a fantastic Chrysothemis. Everyone's loneliness and intimate struggles are Patrice Chéreau's favorites theatrical themes. With Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre de Paris, this production of Elektra becomes an unforgettable experience.

Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1988)

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Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1988)

Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,10 Gb | Total time: 213:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBS Masterworks | # M3K 42564 | Recorded: 1971

Bernstein opera sets come few and far between, but those that do emerge are treated as isolated landmarks. Such was his recording of Richard Strauss` ''Der Rosenkavalier'' of 1971 (CBS M3K 42564, three CDs), recorded three years after he virtually swept the Viennese off their collective feet with it at the Staatsoper.

Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)

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Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)

Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 74:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9109 | Recorded: 1963-1966

The pearl of great price: the German tenor who could make you wish to retract all you ever thought, wrote or spoke about the species, the Mozart tenor who could sound both elegant and manly, the singer who could almost persuade you that Strauss loved the tenor voice as he did the soprano. We hear Wunderlich in this collection additionally as Rossini’s Almaviva, scrupulous with his triplets and almost as careful with his scales. His “Il mio tesoro” drops not a semiquaver and takes the long phrases with confident ease.

Eriikka Maalismaa, Emil Holmström - Richard Strauss, Amy Beach: Violin Sonatas (2021)

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Eriikka Maalismaa, Emil Holmström - Richard Strauss, Amy Beach: Violin Sonatas (2021)

Eriikka Maalismaa, Emil Holmström - Richard Strauss, Amy Beach: Violin Sonatas (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 63:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 502 | Recorded: 2021

The 2019 Classical Emma winners Eriikka Maalismaa and Emil Holmstrom approach the unre strained emoting of Romanticism through the violin sonatas of Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949).

Wiener Philharmoniker - New Year Concert: The complete works Wiener [26CDs] (2020)

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Wiener Philharmoniker - New Year Concert: The complete works Wiener [26CDs] (2020)

Wiener Philharmoniker - New Year Concert: The complete works Wiener (2020)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 8,08 Gb | Total time: 28:46:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439764562 | Recorded: 1969-2020

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the greatest media event in classical music, Sony Classical released in 2015 a complete edition of all the works ever played at the Wiener Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Concerts. Performed in the “Golden Hall” of the Musikverein between 1941 and 2015, the iconic live performances were issued for the first time in a single box set of 23 CDs. Now, in 2020, this edition will be available as a 26-CD extended version, with all the new repertoire from the last five years compiled on three additional CDs.

Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Arabella (2008/1977)

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Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Arabella (2008/1977)

Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Arabella (2008/1977)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 6.86+3.11 Gb (DVD9+DVD5) | 189 min
Classical | DECCA | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Chinese

Decca has released an elegant performance of Strauss's Arabella, Sir George Solti's second commercial recording of the work. The first is the 1957 version which is rightfully famous, with a cast headed by Lisa Della Cassa, Hilde Gueden and George London, with the Vienna Philharmonic. There also is a performance from the 1958 Salzburg Festival with Gueden and London, long discontinued. Now we have this magnificent 1977 Unitel film directed with the greatest sensitivity by Otto Schenk who always has the camera in the right place. The performance is superb in every way. Gundula Janowitz specialized in this role, and although she is a bit matronly, vocally she is unmatched.

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Festive Sounds (2023)

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Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Festive Sounds (2023)

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Festive Sounds (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 63:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SWR Music | # SWR19131CD | Recorded: 2022

For many people Christmas time has come when the broadcasting stations start playing the specific music everybody knows and hears each year. However, not always music performed around Christmas has originally been composed for Christmas too. Especially our earliest and therefore most emotional memories are closely related to this festivity. The music we associate with these emotions does not necessarily have to be Christmassy, but should intensify and reflect those feelings.

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)

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Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)
Schumann, Britten, Purcell, Fauré, Gounod, R.Strauss, Schubert, Poulenc, Debussy, Boulanger

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 272 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2102 | Time: 01:08:50

Those of us who rejoice in the crystalline beauty of Carolyn Sampson’s interpretations of Bach, Handel and Purcell will welcome this bouquet of songs on a floral theme, her debut recital disc. It’s been a long wait, but our patience is repaid handsomely. With pianist Joseph Middleton she savours some choice blooms from, among others, Britten, Chabrier, Schubert, Schumann, Gounod and Strauss, her glorious soprano particularly affecting in Fauré’s Le papillon et la fleur and the wonderfully perfumed Les roses d’Ispahan. Middleton plays with dextrous delicacy throughout and brings real virtuosity to Strauss’s Mädchenblumen. Highly recommended.

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)

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Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 76:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68394 | Recorded: 2021

Isserlis's lockdown project is a fascinating collection of interconnected solo cello pieces: Bach, the Russian master-cellist, and Isserlis himself are the links…but the Britten Suite is the meatiest item here: truly a "meditation" on death, as Isserlis calls it, and played with a technical and musical conviction worthy of its creators.

Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)

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Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)

Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 62:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBS Masterworks | # MK 39863 | Recorded: 1984

Sony Classical is excited to present the fantastic 1984 recording of Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a newly remastered re-release. This stellar line-up got together to record R. Strauss’ Don Quixote - indisputably the composer’s finest example of musical painting, his most daring in design and most controversial in effects - and Schoenberg’s fascinating arrangement of Monn’s Harpsichord Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.

Friedrich Gulda - Genie und Rebell (Genius and Rebel) (2010) 10 CD Box Set

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Friedrich Gulda - Genie und Rebell (Genius and Rebel) (2010) 10 CD Box Set

Friedrich Gulda - Genie und Rebell (Genius and Rebel) (2010) 10 CD Box Set
Mozart - Beethoven - Weber - Chopin - Debussy - Ravel - R. Strauss

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.59 Gb | Scans included | Time: 08:54:21
Genre: Classical | Label: Membran | # 233021

This compilation features recordings made between 1950 and 1959 and proves the outstanding pianist to be an equally brilliant and exciting performer of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Strauss. In addition the compilation boasts highlights from the legendary 1956 Birdland sessions.

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2003/1988)

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James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2003/1988)

James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2003/1988)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.77 Gb (DVD9) | 154 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

An enthralling production from the Metropolitan Opera under James Levine, with an unbeatable performance from Jessye Norman as Ariadne, and spotless coloratura from Kathleen Battle as Zerbinetta. James King offers sterling support in the taxing role of Bacchus. (James Longstaffe)

Karl Böhm, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2007/1978)

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Karl Böhm, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2007/1978)

Karl Böhm, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Edita Gruberova - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2007/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.02 Gb (DVD9) | 127 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

This DVD of Ariadne is a 1978 film based on Filippo Sanjust’s Vienna State Opera production. The bustling Prologue is set in the backstage area of the mogul’s palace and the 18th century costumes fit neatly. In the opera proper, the stage is transformed into a very stagey desert island with an improbable set of stairs leading to the heroine’s cave, the action spilling over into the theatre’s side boxes at times. While there’s nothing particularly imaginative about the production, it never distracts from the main event–the music. Strauss was profligate in his melodic gifts, his ability to make a reduced orchestra sound big, and his wonderful obsession with the female voice, which yields many glorious moments in the opera. Lavish casting helps.

Ulf Schirmer, Orchestre de l'Opera national de Paris, Renee Fleming - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2004)

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Ulf Schirmer, Orchestre de l'Opera national de Paris, Renee Fleming - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2004)

Ulf Schirmer, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Renée Fleming - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2004)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Deutsch | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | Dolby AC3, 5 ch | 6.31+4.29 Gb (DVD9+DVD5) | 148 min
Classical | TDK | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

When the curtain fell at the Paris Opera premiere of Capriccio, the audiences rose to long and frenetic ovations. They unanimously applauded each singer in a cast of stars, but Renée Fleming was undoubtedly the leading light of this remarkable production. Every one of the performers in this production is outstanding and can be regarded as the best possible singer for the role - Opera fans from all over the world came to Paris to see this production. This Capriccio also served as a role debut for American star soprano Renée Fleming who took on the role of the Gräfin. The critics celebrated her performance as “ideal” in all aspects: musically, dramatically and above all vocally and she was cheered frenetically by the audience at the Palais Garnier of the Opéra National de Paris.