Salomé Strauss

Richard Strauss - Orchestral Works
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / David Zinman
7xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 1,98 GB | Artwork: 142 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Arte Nova # 74321 98495 2 | Country/Year: Germany 2003
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

"…Seven CDs is undoubtedly a major collection. There will inevitably be some frustrations that the enterprise was not more thorough in terms of repertoire, and as discussed, there are some howling omissions. Having made the point, let me conclude by acknowledging the high standards of performance and recording that lie at the heart of this set. While there may be a few regrets that it is not as comprehensive as it might (as it ought to?) have been, what we do have is undoubtedly well worth having." ~musicweb-international

Zubin Mehta - Zubin Mehta conducts Richard Strauss (2016) (8CD Box Set)
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Genre: Classical / Label: Sony

The other major orchestral release here features the Richard Strauss recordings conducted for Sony Classical by Zubin Mehta.

On 5 July 1950, shortly after the completion of the Salome score in Berlin and well before its first performance, Strauss wrote to inform his publisher Adolf Fürstner that he himself would undertake a French version of his new composition. His adaptation would retain the existing orchestration but alter the vocal line to accommodate Oscar Wilde's original French Salomé. Geneviève Lièvre, notes to the Virgin recording.

Christoph von Dohnanyi is one of those conductors, like Wolfgang Sawallisch, Rafael Kubelik and Josef Keilberth, who were relatively ignored by the journalist school of music critics and later, usually after they are dead, lauded to the skies as undiscovered geniuses of the podium. Well, Maestro Dohnanyi is alive and well and with us and still conducting, mostly at the Zurich opera, and it is a good thing that his performances are being filmed, if not recorded, for posterity because he is a giant of the operatic podium, especially in the operas of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner.