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Anton Bruckner : Symphony No.8 - Richard Strauss : Metamorphosen - Staatskapelle Dresden - Giuseppe Sinopoli

19th Century Music | 20th Century Music | Orchestral Music | Deutsche Grammophon 447 744-2 | 1996

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 2 zip files with the 5 tracks on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 16 page booklet (in English, German, French, Italian), plus front and back cover.

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Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The former are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other radicals, such as Richard Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fit the enfant terrible mould, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors, most notably the influential Austrian critic Eduard Hanslick, and other supporters of Johannes Brahms, who pointed to their large size, use of repetition, and Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred.

Richard Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known particularly for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Strauss was also a prominent conductor. Strauss completed the composition of Metamorphosen, a work for 23 solo strings, in 1945. The title comes from a profoundly self-examining poem by Goethe which Strauss had considered setting as a choral work. Generally regarded as one of the masterpieces of the string repertoire, Metamorphosen contains Strauss's most sustained outpouring of tragic emotion.

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Track List:

CD 1

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Symphony No.8 in C minor - 1890 Version - Ed. Leopold Nowak

[1] I. Allegro moderato (17'19")

[2] II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio. Langsam (15'19")

[3] III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend (27'53")

CD 2

[1] IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell (25'20")

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

[2] Metamorphosen AV.142, study for 23 solo strings [1945] (28'40")

Adagio ma non troppo - Agitato - Più allegro - Adagio, tempo prima - molto lento

Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli

Recorded: Dresden, Lukaskirche, december 1994.

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