Also Sprach Zarathustra

Album by Richard Strauss

Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896. The orchestral programme work features a striking opening fanfare, expansive orchestration with prominent brass and organ textures and sweeping orchestral arcs, and it marks an important stage in Strauss's development of large-scale tone poems and in the evolution of late-Romantic orchestral writing, drawing inspiration from Nietzsche's philosophical novel.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Part 1
    18:30
  2. 2.
    Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Part 2
    15:48

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