Strauss: Macbeth & Alpensinfonie Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Marek Janowski

• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Macbeth, Op.23:
• 1 Strauss: Macbeth, Op.23 19:17
• Alpine Symphony, Op. 64:
• 2 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Nacht 03:29
• 3 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Sonnenaufgang 01:30
• 4 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Der Anstieg 02:26
• 5 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Eintritt in den Wald 05:46
• 6 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Am Wasserfall 00:15
• 7 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Erscheinung 00:45
• 8 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Auf blumige Wiesen 00:50
• 9 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Auf der Alm 02:03
• 10 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen 01:21
• 11 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Auf dem Gletscher 01:03
• 12 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Gefahrvolle Augenblicke 01:21
• 13 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Auf dem Gipfel 04:21
• 14 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Vision 04:02
• 15 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Nebel steigen auf 00:22
• 16 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Die Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich 00:53
• 17 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Elegie 02:23
• 18 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Stille vor dem Sturm 02:48
• 19 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg 03:23
• 20 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Sonnenuntergang 02:22
• 21 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Ausklang 06:16
• 22 Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Op. 64: Nacht (II) 02:03
• Total Runtime 01:08:59

Info for Strauss: Macbeth & Alpensinfonie

Technically speaking, Eine Alpensinfonie (= An Alpine Symphony) is not a symphony. For after 1911, Richard Strauss rejected his original plan to write a four-movement symphony based on the theme of a Tragedy of an Artist, and instead sat down to write a one-movement symphonic poem. He concentrated on the part he had first designated as the opening movement of the symphony and in which he provided a programmatic description of “the Alps”. The first sketches were made in 1911; in 1913 the work existed in the form of a partichelo (= reduced score); and two years later, the full score was completed. Some scholars have interpreted the prolonged period of time spent by Strauss in the composition of the Alpine Symphony, with very little progress at times, as “an indication that he had exhausted his capacity to portray instrumental programme music” (Wagner). The work was lacking a “truly significant musical core thought”, which was apparent for instance from the enormously expanded length of the Alpensinfonie (not only is this Strauss’ last, but also his longest tone poem, with an average duration of about 60 minutes), as well as from its relinquishment of certain categories employed in other symphonic poems, such as humour, irony and persiflage.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski, conductor

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