Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Frank Shipway, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

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Label: BIS
Release Date: September 1, 2012

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

STRAUSS, RICHARD
ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE

Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
PERFORMER

Frank, Shipway

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

September 01, 2012
UPC

7318599919508
CATALOG NUMBER

BIS-1950
LABEL

BIS
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Orchestral & Symphonic

Works ⌄

Nacht (Night) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Der Anstieg (The Ascent) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Eintritt in den Wald (Entry into the Wood) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Wanderung neben dem Bache (Wandering by the brook) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Am Wasserfall (At the Waterfall) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Erscheinung (Apparition) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Auf blumigen Wiesen (On Flowering Meadows) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Auf der Alm (On the Alpine Pasture) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Durch Dickicht und Gestrupp auf Irrwegen (Straying through Thicket and Undergrowth) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Auf dem Gletscher (On the Glacier) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Gefahrvolle Augenblicke (Dangerous Moments) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Auf dem Gipfel (On the Summit) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Vision -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Nebel steigen auf (Mists rise) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Die Sonne verdustert sich allmählich (The Sun gradually darkens) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Élégie -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Stille vor dem Sturm (Calm before the Storm) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg (Thunder and Storm, Descent) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Sonnenuntergang (Sunset) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Ausklang (Final Sounds) -

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Nacht (Night)

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway
Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten, TrV 234a

Composer: Richard Strauss

Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

Conductor: Frank Shipway

Called a 'symphony' by its composer, Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony is nevertheless a symphonic poem, and as such it is the last in a series of works that includes such masterpieces as Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben. In 1900, when Strauss first mentioned any plans for the work, he spoke of a symphonic poem in two parts that would begin with a sunrise in Switzerland. When he returned to the idea some ten years later, the work soon grew so vast that he decided to be content with one single movement, depicting the 'worship of eternal glorious nature'. To regard the Alpensinfonie simply as an impression of landscape would be a mistake, however. It does make use of Strauss' entire repertoire of orchestral pictorialism, but behind it are ideas much less simple: nature is being worshipped in the intoxicated spirit of Nietzsche's superman, the liberation of the soul is achieved through hard work - the climber's struggle to gain the mountaintOp.The work is divided into 22 sections that flow in an unbroken sequence, marking the ascent and descent of the mountain, from before sunrise to after sunset. It was scored for the largest orchestra ever used by Strauss for a purely orchestral piece, and he later said that it was in the Alpine Symphony that he had 'finally learned how to orchestrate'. The experience must in any case have been useful when he composed his next work, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, with an even more opulent orchestration. The opera was premièred in 1919, but it wasn't until 1946 that Strauss, in his 82nd year, returned to the score in order to make his Symphonic Fantasy, based on high points from the opera. These huge, and enormously colourful works are performed here by the eminent São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, whose highly praised recordings of the Choros by Villa-Lobos have been described as 'an orgy of colours and rhythms' (Diapason) and 'an assured blend of lush colours, pulsating rhythms and supple phrasing' (International Record Review). The orchestra is conducted by Frank Shipway, with fine credentials in late-Romantic Austro-German repertoire.