Ein Heldenleben

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Friedrich Schloffer - R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 TrV 190 (2022) [Of Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by ciklon5 at July 14, 2022

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Friedrich Schloffer - R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 TrV 190 (2022) [Of Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 54:02 | 534 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label:BR-Klassik

Richard Strauss enjoyed early success as both conductor and composer, in the second capacity influenced by the work of Wagner. He developed the symphonic poem (or tone poem) to an unrivalled level of expressiveness and after 1900 achieved great success with a series of impressive operas, at first on a grand scale but later tending to a more Classical restraint. His relationship with the National Socialist government in Germany was at times ambiguous, a fact that protected him but led to post-war difficulties and self-imposed exile in Switzerland, from which he returned home to Bavaria only in the year of his death, 1949.

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Richard Strauss - Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker - Ein Heldenleben & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (2007) Music

Posted by luckburz at March 21, 2014

Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28
Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 315 MB | Full Artwork: 25 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 00289 477 7156 GM | Country/Year: Germany 2007 (1959/1973)
Genre: Classical | Style: Late Romantic, Early 20th Century

"…Karajan isn't performing the work: he's living it. The sweep and swagger of the opening theme, the imperious power of the battle music, the expansive monumentality of the closing pages: this isn't an act for Karajan; this is life itself. (…) anyone who loves either Ein Heldenleben or Der Helden Karajan who doesn't already know this recording is urged to check it out." 4,5/5 ~AMG

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Kent Nagano & Göteborgs Symfoniker - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 & Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 7, 2017

Kent Nagano & Göteborgs Symfoniker - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 & Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (2017)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 311 MB
Label: Farao Classics | Tracks: 10 | Time: 70:37 min

This is the second recording of the Strauss trilogy with Swedens national orchestra under the baton of its Principal Guest Conductor Kent Nagano. As the long-time General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, Kent Nagano possesses a deep understanding of the music of Richard Strauss, the Munich Strauss tradition, and authentic sources stemming from the Strauss family. What is less well known is that the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra can also lay claim to an impressive Strauss tradition.

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London Symphony Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli - Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Jan. 8, 2021

London Symphony Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli - Strauss- Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:35 minutes | 1,84 GB
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Official Digital Download

Born in London of Italian-French parents, Sir John Barbirolli (1899–1970) trained as a cellist and played in theatre and café orchestras before joining the Queen’s Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood in 1916.

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Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op.40 (1959) [Japanese SHM-SACD 2014] PS3 ISO++ Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Dec. 16, 2024

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op.40 (1959) [Japan 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:43 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,3 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans NOT included | 1,19 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans NOT included | 1017 MB
Japanese SHM-SACD / This version uses the DSD master made by Emil Berliner Studios, Germany in 2014

Say what you want about the egomaniacal Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, he was far & away the best postwar interpreter of German composer Richard Strauss’ megalomaniacal Ein Heldenleben. In this 1959 Deutsche Grammophon recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Karajan approaches the work as a portrait painted in sound of the artist as a young world conqueror.

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Rudolf Kempe - Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 & Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 28, 2019

Rudolf Kempe - Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 & Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 (2019)
FLAC tracks | 01:28:05 | 449 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Rudolf Kempe all recorded Strauss extensively and very well. However, Kempe has the most "complete" set, and arguably the best orchestra and sound. Speaking of the sound, each disc jacket loudly shouts "Newly re-mastered from the original source tapes".

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 13, 2024

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 64:16 minutes | 1 GB
Classical | Label: Pentatone, Official Digital Download

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare extend their Pentatone discography with a recording of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, sung by superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The pairing of works may seem odd at first, with Strauss at his most exuberant and Mahler at his most introspective. They share, however, a deeply personal and autobiographical approach by two giants of fin-de-siècle music coming to terms with the world they lived in and their place in it. After their acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 13, 2024

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare & Sonya Yoncheva - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 259 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:16
Classical | Label: Pentatone

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare extend their Pentatone discography with a recording of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, sung by superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The pairing of works may seem odd at first, with Strauss at his most exuberant and Mahler at his most introspective. They share, however, a deeply personal and autobiographical approach by two giants of fin-de-siècle music coming to terms with the world they lived in and their place in it. After their acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.

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Anna Netrebko, Staatskapelle Berlin - Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder; Ein Heldenleben (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Nov. 20, 2024

Anna Netrebko, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim -
Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder; Ein Heldenleben (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 68:22 minutes | 1,26 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Saving the best for last in the Richard Strauss anniversary 2014. The world s most luxurious soprano, Anna Netrebko, sings Richard Strauss sumptuous Four Last Songs, accompanied by the Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim. An irresistible, all-star combination. The live recording will take place in Berlin, this month. It is a charity concert.

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Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben / Salome (Closing Scene); NDRSO / Donald Runnicles (2001) Music

Posted by luckburz at July 11, 2014

Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben / Salome (Closing Scene)
NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Hamburg / Alessandra Marc, soprano / Donald Runnicles
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 284 MB | Full Artwork: 33 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Teldec # 8573-89365-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2001
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century

Donald Runnicles is a highly successful Scottish conductor who mostly worked in opera houses until the 1990s, the decade he successfully branched out into the concert hall. He has generally divided his career equally between operatic and symphonic conducting since. Though he has worked extensively in the U.K. and Germany, he may be better known for his activity in the U.S. as conductor of the San Francisco Opera (since 1992), as principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and for his many popular recordings on the American label Telarc…

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