Also Sprach Zarathustra

London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)

London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Jeux (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 200 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 118 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:45
Classical | Label: LSO Live

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

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.
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel (2020)

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański & Stefan Wagner - Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 272 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | 01:05:15
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Is the imitation of rolling thunder, howling winds and bleating sheep a form of musical composition worthy of the name? Can we take seriously a composer who boasts of being able to ‘set a restaurant menu to music, if need be’? These were the kinds of questions that Richard Strauss, one of the most virtuosic composers of the so-called ‘programme music’, had to ask himself. His answer: ‘I am a musician from head to toe; for me, all “programmes” are merely incentives to invent new forms, nothing else.’ The NDR Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Urbański, has chosen to devote its sixth Alpha Classics recording to three of Richard Strauss’s most famous symphonic poems: Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28 and Don Juan op. 20.
Edward Gardner - Holst: The Planets / R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2017)

Edward Gardner - Holst: The Planets / R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 79:41 min | 184 MB
Label: Chandos | Tracks: 16 | Rls.date: 2017

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.
Riccardo Chailly - Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verklärung; Till Eulenspiegel; Salome's Dance (2019)

Riccardo Chailly - Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verklärung; Till Eulenspiegel; Salome's Dance (2019)
FLAC tracks | 01:25:14 | 358 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.

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. Sonically spectacular recording opening with Also sprach Zarathustra: the music made famous by 2001: A Space Odyssey. Continuing the critically-acclaimed Lucerne/Chailly partnership launched by the world premiere recording of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song.
Berliner Philharmoniker & Gustavo Dudamel - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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.
Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2019)

Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Tod und Verklärung, Till Eulenspiegel & Salome's Dance (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 85:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 483 3080 | Recorded: 2017

Following critical acclaim for their world premiere recording of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly return with a new collaboration featuring some of the greatest works in the orchestral repertoire by Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegel, recorded live at the opening concert of the Lucerne Festival, 2017.
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2023) [24/192]

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.
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2023)

Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Vladimir Jurowski - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 118 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 75 Mb | 00:32:40
Classical | Label: Pentatone

Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is famous for its iconic opening measures, and often considered the emblematic symphonic poem. Vladimir Jurowski’s interpretations of Strauss together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin are considered among the most idiomatic and colourful of our times.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons - Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 (Live) (2020) [24/48]

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.