Alpine Symphony

Album by Richard Strauss & Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester & Franz Welser‐Möst

Alpine Symphony is a symphonic poem by German composer Richard Strauss, completed and premiered in 1915. The work is an expansive orchestral tone poem depicting an alpine ascent and descent through rich orchestration, a very large orchestra and late-Romantic harmonic language, and it stands among Strauss's late large-scale programme works that bridge late Romanticism and evolving modern orchestral techniques.
First released: 14th February 2006

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: I. Night
    3:16
  2. 2.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: II. Sunrise
    1:08
  3. 3.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: III. The Ascent
    2:19
  4. 4.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: IV. Entering the Forest
    4:42
  5. 5.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: V. Strolling by the Stream
    0:41
  6. 6.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: VI. By the Waterfall
    0:14
  7. 7.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: VII. Apparition
    0:43
  8. 8.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: VIII. In Flowery Meadows
    0:52
  9. 9.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: IX. In a Mountain Pasture
    2:01
  10. 10.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: X. Lost in the Thickets and Undergrowth
    1:24
  11. 11.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XI. On the Glacier
    0:56
  12. 12.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XII. Dangerous Moments
    1:22
  13. 13.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XIII. On the Summit
    3:28
  14. 14.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XIV. Vision
    2:44
  15. 15.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XV. Mists Rise Up
    0:17
  16. 16.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XVI. The Sun Grows Dark
    0:45
  17. 17.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XVII. Elegy
    1:44
  18. 18.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XVIII. Quiet Before the Storm
    2:31
  19. 19.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XIX. Thunderstorm
    3:36
  20. 20.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XX. Sunset
    2:09
  21. 21.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XXI. Conclusion
    5:42
  22. 22.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: XXII. Finale. Night
    2:08

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