Don Quixote

Jacqueline du Pré - Strauss: Don Quixote - Lalo: Cello Concerto - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 (2022)

Jacqueline du Pré - Strauss: Don Quixote - Lalo: Cello Concerto - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:30:18 | 393 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Here is a batch of absolute masterpieces of the romantic concertante cello repertoire, played with her endless energy and sensitivity. This album gathers recordings that remained long unavailable even after du Pré’s death. Don Quixote was initially meant to be recorded with Otto Klemperer as a prelude to a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, but as they didn’t get on at all the project remained unrealized. Thankfully a rehearsal session directed by Sir Adrian Boult was preserved! A few seconds of recording were missing at the very beginning but have been patched with the Klemperer version. They are coupled with concertos by Lalo (which du Pré played for her first appearance on TV in 1958) and Saint-Saëns with Daniel Barenboim. The latter is a digital premiere.
Vasily Petrenko - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 / Don Juan, Op. 20 / Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 (2019)

Vasily Petrenko - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 / Don Juan, Op. 20 / Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 (2019)
FLAC tracks | 01:16:25 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Lawo Classics

Vasily Petrenko is one of the most significant and galvanizing musicians alive. He became famous for his transformative work at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the oldest orchestra in the United Kingdom, where he refashioned the orchestra's sound, reconnected the organization to its home city and presided over a huge increase in ticket sales.
Alexander Titov, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Natalia Osipova, Leonid Sarafanov - Minkus: Don Quixote (2016)

Alexander Titov, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Natalia Osipova; Leonid Sarafanov - Minkus: Don Quixote (2016)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.31 Gb (DVD9) | 120 min
Classical | C Major

In this production from Teatro alla Scala the ballet Don Quixote is shown in the legendary choreography of Rudolf Nureyev. Nureyev´s intention by fusing together the worlds of Commedia dell´Arte and classical ballet to create a visual feast for its audience, has made Don Quixote one of the most loved ballets world-wide. With its sparkling energy and the bright colours of the staging by Raffaele Del Savio and Anna Anni, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote, transports audiences with freshness, joy and choreographic splendour to an enchanting Spain, with gypsy dances, fandangos, matadors, windmills and the airy candour of the Garden of the Dryads. The ballet of Teatro alla Scala and the classical ballet stars Natalia Osipova (principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London and the Mikhaylovsky Theatre Ballet in St Petersburg) and Leonid Sarafanov (principal dancer of the Mikhaylovsky Theatre Ballet in St Petersburg) make this a breathtaking, and distinctive performance.

Ophélie Gaillard - Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works (2018)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at March 15, 2018
Ophélie Gaillard - Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works (2018)

Ophélie Gaillard - Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 315 MB
Label: Aparté | Tracks: 18 | Time: 79:12 min

From Romance to tone poem, the cellist Ophélie Gaillard invites to an imaginary journey, both heroic and delicate, in the post-Romantic world of Richard Strauss.
Daniel Müller-Schott - Strauss: Don Quixote, Sonata for cello and piano, Songs Opp. 10 & 32 (2019)

Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Strauss: Don Quixote, Sonata for cello and piano, Songs Opp. 10 & 32 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 309 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 Mb | 01:10:17
Classical | Label: Orfeo

During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life, Richard Strauss (18641949) composed only a few works for the cello. Only three have survived and small as that number may seem, those cello works are critical to the composers development. Daniel Müller-Schott sees the early Sonata for cello and piano op. 6 and the late tone poem Don Quixote op. 35 as marking the path that was to lead Strauss within the space of a few years from Romanticism to the Modern era in music. The cellist highlights this watershed in Strausss artistic development with his own transcriptions, expressly made for this CD, of the Lieder Zueignung op. 10/1 and Ich trage meine Minne op. 32/1.
Takako Nishizaki, Slovak SPO, Michael Halasz - Anton Rubinstein: Violin Concerto; Don Quixote (1990)

Anton Rubinstein: Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 46; Don Quixote, Op. 87 (1990)
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Michael Halász, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 284 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | # 8.220359 | Time: 00:58:33

The G major Anton Rubinstein violin concerto is a fine and powerful work, quite as good as many a lesser-known Russian example in the same genre, and easily as deserving of wider currency as, say, the Taneyev Suite de Concert, which is just as rarely heard these days. Nishizaki gives a committed and polished reading, though you often feel that this is music written by a pianist who had marginally less facility when writing for the violin. Still, here’s a well-schooled performance, full of agreeable touches of imagination (the Andante shows Nishizaki’s fine-spun tone to particularly good effect) delivered with crisply economical urgency that makes good musical sense even of the work’s plainer and less idiomatic passages.
Zuill Bailey, North Carolina Symphony Orchestra - Walton: Cello Concerto - Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184 (2020)

Zuill Bailey, North Carolina Symphony Orchestra - Walton: Cello Concerto - Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184 (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:09:24 | 288 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Steinway and Sons

Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony join cellist Zuill Bailey in live performances of the great tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss and William Walton’s rhapsodic cello concerto.
James Ehnes - Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto / Don Quixote (2019)

James Ehnes, Daniel Müller-Schott, Christopher Moore, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis - Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto / Don Quixote (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 340 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | 01:12:56
Classical | Label: ABC Classics

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis continue their acclaimed survey of the orchestral music of Richard Strauss, with this latest volume featuring three world-class soloists – James Ehnes, Daniel Müller-Schott and Christopher Moore – performing two of his finest early works: the Violin Concerto, and the tone poem Don Quixote.
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tabea Zimmermann - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel (2021)

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tabea Zimmermann - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:04:19 | 271 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi

Après deux parutions consacrés aux Troisième et Cinquième Symphonies de Mahler, François-Xavier Roth poursuit son exploration des œuvres majeures créées par l’Orchestre du Gürzenich. À l’honneur cette fois, deux pages parmi les plus brillantes du jeune Richard Strauss : Till l’Espiègle et Don Quichotte. Pour ce poème symphonique en forme de double concerto, Jean-Guihen Queyras et Tabea Zimmermann, duo complice et picaresque, incarnent le Chevalier à la Triste Figure et son écuyer Sancho Panza.
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben (2008/1983-87)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben (2008/1983-87)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 5 ch) | 6.08 Gb (DVD9) | 90 min
Classical | Sony Classical

Celebrating one of the most revered conductors of the 20th century, this series was originally released to commemorate Herbert von Karajan’s 100th birthday in 2008. Using innovate technology to recreate the original concert acoustics, the audio for these DVDs has been re-recorded at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin and the Musikverein in Vienna, Karajan’s two favourite concert venues, to create re-mastered surround-sound versions of these classic performances. With each DVD featuring von Karajan conducting either the Berlin Philharmonic or Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, two of the highest regarded orchestras in the world, this series really does marry the greatest music, the highest calibre performers, and the best possible audio-visual presentation.