Rudolf Kempe – Rudolf Kempe Conducts Richard Strauss (Port) [LP]

Rudolf Kempe’s recordings of Richard Strauss have long been prized for their unparalleled clarity and subtlety in music that has come to define the late-Romantic temperament and it’s expression of highly strung emotions, whether in a state of Nietzschean exaltation, on the summits of ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ or in the post-war despair of ‘Metamorphosen’. Strauss loves the complex textures that Kempe and the Staatskapelle Dresden clarify with the utmost skill and sympathy

Tracklist:

1. Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
2. Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: I. Introduction – of the Backworldsmen – of the Great Longing
3. Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: II. of Joys and Passions – the Song of the Grave
4. Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: III. of Science and Learning
5. Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: IV. the Convalescent – the Dance Song – Song of the Night Wanderer
6. Capriccio, Op. 85, Sce