Sawallisch Strauss

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op.65 (1988/2018) [Official Digital Download]

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op.65 (1988/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 170:36 minutes | 1.69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

"The role that always suffers most is that of the Nurse, ostensibly because some of HofmannsthaI's most abstruse text is put into her mouth. It emerges here, in Hanna Schwarz's glorious performance, as one of Strauss's most memorable creations for the female voice, and if there were no other reasons (which there are) for hailing this EMI achievement, the Nurse would be enough.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (2011/1992)

Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (2011/1992)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Deutsch | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 6 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 4.03 Gb+7.44 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 183 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

Arthaus presents a rare document of an early nineties operatic highlight: the Japanese premiere of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s last production at the Bavarian State Opera. The Company’s tour of Nagoya and Tokyo in autumn 1992 under director and principal conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch was a particularly important event. Sawallisch was celebrating both the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first appearance as visiting guest conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and his departure, after twenty-one years, from his two principal posts with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Sawallisch - an acclaimed interpreter of the music of Richard Strauss - chose Die Frau ohne Schatten to commemorate these anniversaries.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philharmonia Orchestra - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (1987)

Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philharmonia Orchestra - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 535 Mb | Total time: 61:57+73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDS 7 49014 8 | Recorded: 1957-1958

Few singers have fused words and music as eloquently as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and few sopranos have proved more radiant in Strauss. All this makes her the ideal protagonist in the composer’s final opera, his ingenious and engaging ‘conversation piece’ on artistic themes. Schwarzkopf is joined by a cast of superlative stature and style and by a conductor intimately identified with the works of Strauss, Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Sarah Chang, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - R. Strauss: Violin Concerto, Sonata in E flat (2000)

Sarah Chang, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - R. Strauss: Violin Concerto, Sonata in E flat (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 262 Mb | Total time: 59:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 5 56870 5 | Recorded: 1999

Sarah Chang is certainly an exceptional player; her finely produced tone is characteristically sweet, yet she varies it most imaginatively — in the Concerto's slow movement, for instance, where she follows the changing shades of emotion in the most detailed way. The first movement may have been recorded with more strongly expressed feeling (by Boris Belkin), its finale with more mercurial displays of virtuosity (Xue-Wei), but overall Chang is the equal of any, with relaxed technical command and real feeling for the music. The accompaniment is well balanced and cleanly recorded, with distinguished solo contributions from woodwind and horns.
Wolfgang Sawallisch - Wolfgang Sawallisch Conducts Strauss (2023)

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Wolfgang Sawallisch Conducts Strauss (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 939 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 556 Mb | 04:02:02
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Wolfgang Sawallisch was a German conductor and pianist, known for his refined interpretations of orchestral and opera repertoire. As a pianist, he was a revered accompanist and chamber musician, as well as an accomplished soloist. He was born in 1923 in Munich to Maria and Wilhelm Sawallisch, and had a brother named Werner who was older by five years. He started learning the piano at age five, and by the age of ten he had already decided that he wanted to be a concert pianist as an adult. Upon graduating high school in Munich in 1942, he studied piano with Wolfgang Ruoff until he was drafted into the military, where he served in France and Italy with the Wehrmacht, a branch of the Nazi armed forces. During the final stages of World War II in 1945 he was captured and held in a British POW camp.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Sings Richard Strauss (2022)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Sings Richard Strauss (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 408 MB
2:43:01 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

George Szell or Otto Ackermann: which one of these legendary renditions of the Four Last Songs by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is your favourite? Make your own judgement with this collection of the best Strauss recordings by the grande dame of German lieder. It also demonstrates her talent in the piano/voice format, with her long-time accompanists Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons, and in opera, with landmark performances of Capriccio’s closing scene conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch and excerpts from Arabella with Lovro von Matačić.
Kiri Te Kanawa, Hagegard, Wiener Philharmoniker, Ulf Schirmer - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (1996) 2CD, Reissue 2009

Richard Strauss - Capriccio (1996) 2CD, Reissue 2009
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Håkan Hagegård, baritone
Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Ulf Schirmer

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 596 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 328 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: DECCA | # 478 0333 | Time: 02:19:18

The discography of Strauss’s last opera is not exactly crowded, but the two existing accounts provide formidable competition for any newcomer. First there was Sawallisch, conducting the Philharmonia for EMI in 1957 (unfortunately in mono) and a cast led by Schwarzkopf, Ludwig and Fischer-Dieskau. Then, in 1971, came that other supreme Straussian, Karl Böhm, with Janowitz, Troyanos and (again) Fischer-Dieskau, recorded in Munich for DG. The new Decca set brings together many of today’s leading exponents of Strauss’s roles, dominated, for me, by the unsurpassed Clairon of Brigitte Fassbaender, now alas, never to be heard on stage again following her retirement. Heilmann and Bär make an ardent pair of rival suitors, Hagegård an admirable Count and Halem a sonorous, characterful La Roche. (There is a delightful link with the past history of the opera in the person of Hans Hotter: he sang Olivier in the 1942 premiere, La Roche in the 1957 Sawallisch set, and here, at 84 when recorded in December 1993, a one-line cameo as a servant.) For many, though, the set’s desirability will rest on Te Kanawa’s Countess.

Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Dec. 12, 2023
Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)

Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:07 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 67783 2 0

This CD from EMI features Dennis Brain, in my opinion the greatest horn player who ever lived. In his tragically brief life Brain recorded the definitive versions of numerous works, and although his Mozart horn concertos are my favorites, his treatment of Strauss is a close runner up. Despite these recordings being from the mid-1950s, the musicianship of Brain still makes these the best available. While I like Strauss, I find Hindemith a bit derivative and monotonous, although with Brain's treatment still a delight.
Wolfgang Sawallisch - Richard Strauss: Complete Chamber Music (2011) (9 CDs Box Set)

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Richard Strauss: Complete Chamber Music (2011) (9 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 9 CDs, 09:55:06 min | Covers included | 2,17 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Richard Strauss was a supreme composer for the orchestra, and of opera and songs, but in his earlier years he wrote a large amount of chamber music. The young Strauss was heavily influenced by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, and it was only later that he fell under the spell of Wagner and composed the operas and programme music for which he is best known. This splendid 9-CD set of Richard Strauss’ complete chamber music encompasses a huge range of genres for a variety of instruments.
Richard Wagner - Bayreuther Festspiele / Sawallisch - Tannhäuser [Highlights] (1963, CD reissue 1995) [RE-UP]

Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser (Highlights/Höhepunkte)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele / Wolfgang Sawallisch
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 373 MB | Full Artwork: 28 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Philips "Wagner Edition" # 446 620-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1995, 1963
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Opera

Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013) was a German conductor and pianist. (…) When he debuted at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus conducting Tristan und Isolde in 1957, he was the youngest conductor ever to appear there. (…) For thirty years, he was closely associated with musical events in Munich. Here he conducted practically all of the major Richard Strauss operas, Salome being the sole exception. He also conducted 32 complete Richard Wagner Ring des Nibelungen cycles and is credited with nearly 1200 opera performances in the city alone…