David Zinman Conducts Strauss / Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

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David Zinman, one of today’s most versatile and enterprising conductors, renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven and the music of his American compatriots, has recorded the major works of Richard Strauss with his venerable Swiss orchestra. These excellent performances are reissued here in a single box. ClassicsToday: “There’s much to savor over the course of these seven discs … Zinman’s clear-headed, intelligent interpretations are well worth getting to know.” MusicWeb International: “Zinman has the measure of the scope and scale” of Strauss’s music. “Throughout the project there is no question that the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra play particularly well, while the Arte Nova engineers have produced an atmospheric acoustic and a suitably opulent sound quality … Undoubtedly a major collection.”

REVIEW:

As a Strauss conductor, David Zinman's interests lie more with making sense of the composer's complex linear strands than reveling in his dazzling sonorities and dynamic extremes. In other words, Zinman's a line guy, while Straussians like Kempe and Karajan are chord guys (Strauss is a chord guy disguised as a line guy). There's much to savor over the course of these seven discs.

Zinman's Alpine Symphony mirrors the rounded elegance of Karajan's early digital DG recording, but with more accomplished first-desk playing and better-balanced sonics. He also surpasses the venerable Böhm traversal of the garish Festival Prelude (perhaps the worst orchestral composition by a major composer). Zinman leads a disciplined Sinfonia Domestica that proves more genial and less regimented than Szell/Cleveland, even if we've long been spoiled by Neeme Järvi's stunning brass section. Although Zinman's Metamorphosen doesn't match Karajan's uniform tonal beauty or Kempe's surging climaxes, he takes uncommon care to place the solo and ensemble lines in proper perspective.

All of the works with soloists are played well, especially Simon Fuchs' supple, rich-toned traversal of the Oboe Concerto and Roland Pöntinen's incisive, frighteningly assured left-hand work in the Parergon. While Kempe/Dresden reigns as the Strauss collection of reference, Zinman's clear-headed, intelligent interpretations are well worth getting to know.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com (reviewing a previous release of this music on Arte Nova)



Product Description:


  • Release Date: December 04, 2020


  • Catalog Number: 19075945482


  • UPC: 190759454824


  • Label: Sony Music Entertainment


  • Number of Discs: 7


  • Period: Romantic, 20th Cetury


  • Composer: Richard Strauss


  • Conductor: David Zinman


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich



Works:


  1. Aus italien, Op. 16

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  2. Macbeth, Op. 23

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  3. Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  4. Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  5. Don Juan, Op. 20

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  6. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  7. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  8. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  9. Festliches Präludium, Op. 61

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  10. Metamorphosen, TrV 290

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  11. Vier letzte Lieder, TrV 290

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Performer: Melanie Diener (Soprano)

    Conductor: David Zinman


  12. Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra in D, TrV 292

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Performer: Simon Fuchs (Oboe)

    Conductor: David Zinman


  13. Symphonia domestica, Op. 53

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman


  14. Parergon, Op. 73

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Performer: Roland Pöntinen (Piano)

    Conductor: David Zinman


  15. Don Quixote, Op. 35

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Performer: Thomas Grossenbacher (Cello), Michel Rouilly (Viola)

    Conductor: David Zinman


  16. Romanze in F, TrV 118

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Performer: Thomas Grossenbacher (Cello)

    Conductor: David Zinman


  17. Serenade in E flat, Op. 7

    Composer: Richard Strauss

    Ensemble: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

    Conductor: David Zinman