Also Sprach Zarathustra

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & Metamorphosen (2023) [Official Digital Down Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Jan. 12, 2025

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & Metamorphosen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.10 kHz | Time - 59:09 | 0.98 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Andris Nelsons leads the Concertgebouworkest in Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. Inspired by Nietzsche, Strauss translated topics like desire, joy, passion and death in music.

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London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 21, 2023

London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 49:34 minutes | 1,63 GB
Classical | Label: LSO Live, Official Digital Download

Opening with its famous ‘Sunrise’ fanfare, there is no mistaking Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra. A bold, intrepid tone poem, famously used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey, it explores mankind’s place in the universe, diving headfirst into themes of religion, science and individuality.

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Berliner Philharmoniker & Gustavo Dudamel - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 16, 2018

Berliner Philharmoniker & Gustavo Dudamel - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 69:32 minutes | 1.18 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

A truly breathtaking new recording from, quite simply, the most exciting and gifted young conductor of our times.

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2023) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 10, 2023

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2023) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 32:36 minutes | 1,0 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Vladimir Jurowski has been the Chief conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2017. He has since extended his contract until 2027. At the same time, he has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2021.

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 (Live) (2020) [24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 6, 2020

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 34:40 minutes | 360 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

It was as an obedient pupil of his father, the celebrated horn player Franz Strauss, that Richard Strauss began his musical career – entirely in the spirit of the classics and early Romantics, with proven forms and traditional genres. Strauss senior loathed Richard Wagner’s monstrous music dramas as well as the achievements of the “New German School” around Franz Liszt, with its avant-garde tone poems and extra-musical programmes. As Richard grew up, he shared his father’s views unquestioningly – but then found a mentor in Hans von Bülow, who, of all people, had once worked together very closely with Wagner. In 1885, Bülow engaged the 21-year-old Strauss as conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra. Its concert master, the radical Wagnerian Alexander Ritter, took the young man under his wing and acquainted him with the blessings of “progressive music” – with the result that Richard Strauss soon began composing symphonic poems himself.

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Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (1960/1994) {Classic/RCA LSC-1806 180g} 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip + Redbook CD Version Vinyl & HR

Posted by garybx at Sept. 24, 2011

This is part of a Classic Records Deluxe 1S Edition Box Set of RCA Living Stereo "Shaded Dog" releases.

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NHK Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi - Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Metamorphosen (2020) Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 4, 2022

Järvi’s version of Zarathustra strikes me as one of the finest ever, a recording to stand alongside those of Reiner, Karajan and Previn. The performance of the opening ‘Sunrise’ makes such an impact that I initially wondered whether the rest of the piece might sound anticlimactic in comparison, but Järvi sustains the intensity through to the end…. The eloquence of the orchestra’s strings also makes a strong impression in Metamorphosen…

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Fritz Reiner - Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (1962) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip Vinyl & HR

Posted by nettz at Nov. 15, 2010

For sheer intoxicating opulence of Straussian sound, it was something close to matchless music that brimmed and overflowed last night in Orchestra Hall. Fritz Reiner is a master of the genre, and when he came to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, rooted in the music from the time of its birth, he found a sensitive instrument he has made unique. When he stands before it with a Strauss score incandescent at his fingertips, no wise man stays at home.
(Claudia Cassidy - The Chicago Tribune)

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Mahler: Totenfeier (2017) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 4, 2017

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Mahler: Totenfeier (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:42 minutes | 1.04 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss’s electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler’s Totenfeier, to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra.

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Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Zdenek Kosler - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Salome's Dance (1988/2014) [24/44] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 18, 2019

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Zdenek Kosler - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Salome's Dance (1988/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 55:07 minutes | 508 MB
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Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus spoke Zarathustra), a tone poem after Friedrich Nietzsche, was written in 1896, during the period Strauss spent as conductor at the opera in his native city of Munich. It is based on the rhapsodic expression of Nietzsche's highly personal philosophy; Strauss makes use of an unusually large orchestra, deployed in the most varied way. In this recording, the orchestra shows a high degree of brilliance.

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