Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Album by Richard Strauss & Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra

Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem by the German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896. The work features expansive orchestration, bold thematic development and late-Romantic harmonic language within a programme structure, and it marks a key step in Strauss's move to large-scale orchestral tone poems that broadened orchestral colour and formal scope in the late nineteenth century.
First released: 1975

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Introduction
    1:44
  2. 2.
    Of Primal Man
    3:44
  3. 3.
    Of the Great Longing
    1:59
  4. 4.
    Of Joys and Passion
    2:15
  5. 5.
    Grave Song
    2:13
  6. 6.
    Concerning Science
    4:08
  7. 7.
    The Convalescent
    5:12
  8. 8.
    Dance Song
    8:11
  9. 9.
    Song of the Night Wanderer
    5:00