R. Strauss Music for Symphonic Brass
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Composer or Director: Richard Strauss
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 1/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 36
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: CHAN8419
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Festmusik der Stadt Wien |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
(2) Parade Marches |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
Fanfare für die Wiener Philharmoniker |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
Fanfare zur Eröffnung der Musikwoche der Stadt W |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-Orden |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
Olympische Hynme |
Richard Strauss, Composer
James Stobart, Conductor Locke Brass Consort Richard Strauss, Composer |
Author:
It is good to have this collection of Strauss's music for brass transferred to CD. The sound is clear throughout and not too oppressively intense and the playing is of a high standard. The quality of the music is variable. Strauss evidently didn't put his heart into his parade marches as Elgar did into Pomp and Circumstance, but the original version of the Vienna Festmusik is an ear-opener and belongs among the best pieces of Strauss's last period. However, the disc is worth having for two other pieces, the superb Wagnerian Feierlicher Einzug of 1909 and the Fanfare zur Eroffnung der Musikwoche der Stadt Wien of 1924, to give it its full title, a strange, nostalgic piece which Robert Matthew Walker rightly calls ''curiously moving''. Incidentally, he errs in saying that Strauss's son and daughter-in-law had ''several children''. They had two sons.'
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