Also Sprach Zarathustra

For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this surround-sound recording.

Developed in the 1970s, Quadraphonic audio was the earliest consumer product recorded and presented in surround sound. Deutsche Grammophon was one of a few labels who embraced this new technology.

"… the sound is sumptuous, wide-ranging and Karajan's control of the work masterly … this is arguably the library choice …"

For many years, the concerto recordings made by Herman Krebbers were staples of the Philips LP catalogue.

Artist Sina Vodjani (known through his recordings for the Buddha Bar, among other productions) travelled for many weeks through his native country of Iran, following in the tracks of the Persian prophet Zarathustra - often under the most adverse of conditions. He met up with priests and local musicians in Iran and captured the audio and visual impressions using microphones, video equipment and camera.

The dream team of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly return with over 85 minutes of some of the greatest orchestral music ever written. Continuing the critically acclaimed Lucerne/Chailly partnership launched by the world premiere recording of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song.

Santtu conducts Strauss is a double-deluxe album with four works by Richard Strauss conducted by Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, two of which are live recordings of Santtu’s 2021/22 opening concert and first concert as Principal Conductor at Royal Festival Hall.

The masterpieces recorded by Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra for the old EMI label are collected into three SACD pieces, are excerpts from some concerto sound sources. For this reprint was used the new 96 kHz/24-bit mastering from the original master tapes. For this original Japanese reissue have been used the LP called "In Memoriam", which was released in the United States in 1985 as a commemorative edition of Ormandy, and adopted a board called "In Memoriam" for the design of the jacket, combining old EMI sound sources. This expanded edition of "In Memoriam" became a most valuable set that conveys these recordings.

Rudolf Kempe’s recordings of Richard Strauss have long been prized for their unparalleled clarity and subtlety in music that has come to define the late-Romantic temperament and its expression of highly strung emotions, whether in a state of Nietzschean exaltation, on the summits of Also sprach Zarathustra and the Alpine Symphony, or in the post-war despair of Metamorphosen. Even in his lighter moods, such as the early and carefree Aus Italien and the late concertos for wind instruments, Strauss loves the complex textures that Kempe and the Staatskapelle Dresden clarify with the utmost skill and sympathy. A classic set, remastered from the original East German master tapes.

Seven-disc set includes unreleased footage from three Elvis concerts plus San Antonio Concert Remixed, Pre-Tour Rehearsals and the complete Golden Globe-winning MGM film on Blu-ray.