An Alpine Symphony

Album by Richard Strauss & Staatskapelle Weimar & Antoni Wit

An Alpine Symphony is a tone poem for orchestra by German composer Richard Strauss, premiered in 1915. A large-scale late-Romantic orchestral work characterised by expansive orchestration and vivid tone-painting that depicts an alpine ascent and descent, it occupies a prominent place in Strauss's late output and in early 20th-century orchestral repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Night
    3:56
  2. 2.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Sunrise
    1:28
  3. 3.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: The Ascent
    2:16
  4. 4.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Entry into the Wood
    6:07
  5. 5.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Wandering by the Stream
    0:48
  6. 6.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: At the Waterfall
    0:14
  7. 7.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Apparition
    0:45
  8. 8.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: On Flowering Meadows
    0:56
  9. 9.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: On the Alpine Pasture
    2:37
  10. 10.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Straying through Thicket and Undergrowth
    1:31
  11. 11.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: On the Glacier
    1:04
  12. 12.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Dangerous Moments
    1:28
  13. 13.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: On the Summit
    5:19
  14. 14.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Vision
    3:58
  15. 15.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Mists Rise
    0:20
  16. 16.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: The Sun Gradually Darkens
    0:55
  17. 17.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Elegy
    2:11
  18. 18.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Calm before the Storm
    3:07
  19. 19.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Thunder and Storm, Descent
    3:54
  20. 20.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Sunset
    2:14
  21. 21.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Final Sounds
    6:34
  22. 22.
    An Alpine Symphony, op. 64: Night
    2:18

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