BERLINER PHILHARMONIKERRICHARD STRAUSS
TOD UND VERKLARUNG
TONE POEM FOR LARGE ORCHESTRA OP.24
REVIEW
It is rather hard to believe that this tall and serious man with the moustache,was the Zarathustra,Don juan,Don Quixote and finally the flying superman on the very top af Alpes!!!!!!!!!
Many rumours and suggestions exist for his preliminary compositions and his style being rather close to SCHUMAN than Wagner!
He had been a brilliant conductor as well as a composer
quite opposite to Mahler,he used to care about precision and discipline more than gestures and feeding the musicians with notes,as Mahler did!!!!!!!!
The tone poems of Dr.Strauss was a project for Karajan ,which he completed on 1972.Then we saw a full set of vinyl discs with the german title TONDTICHTUNGEN!!!!!!!!!.The recordings were breathtaking,with clarity and power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The reading of the great maestro was accurate,precise and faithfull to the way the composer indicated on the notes!
Strauss once attended a performance of ELEKTRA WITH KARAJAN ON THE PODIUM!!!!ON THE FIRST NOTES HE STOOD UP AND SHOUTED......BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!
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