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Strauss - Don Juan & Eine Alpensinfonie

Recorded Live at Concertgebouw 19, 20, 21 & 23 September 2007 (Alpensinfonie); 18, 21 October 2007, 16, 17 January 2008 (Don Juan)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (chief conductor)

…Mariss Jansons's… great lover is beefier if less nimble-footed than George Szell's (on Sony), with the woodwind repeated-note support crystal clear behind spacious strings. …Jansons's…Alpine... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: RCO08006
Label: RCO Live
Length: 70 minutes

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Strauss, R: Don Juan, Op. 20

Work length17:29

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 18, 21 October 2007 and 16-17 January 2008
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Work length52:09

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 19-21 and 23 September 2007
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nacht (Night)

Track length2:47

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Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise)

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Der Anstieg (The Ascent)

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Eintritt in den Wald (Entry into the Wood)

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Wanderung neben dem Bache (Wandering by the brook)

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Am Wasserfall (At the Waterfall)

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Erscheinung (Apparition)

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Auf blumigen Wiesen (On Flowering Meadows)

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Auf der Alm (On the Alpine Pasture)

Track length2:27

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Durch Dickicht und Gestrupp auf Irrwegen (Straying through Thicket and Undergrowth)

Track length1:32

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Auf dem Gletscher (On the Glacier)

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Gefahrvolle Augenblicke (Dangerous Moments)

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Auf dem Gipfel (On the Summit)

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Vision

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Nebel steigen auf (Mists rise)

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Die Sonne verdustert sich allmahlich (The Sun gradually darkens)

Track length0:59

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Elegie

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Stille vor dem Sturm (Calm before the Storm)

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Gewitter und Sturm, Abstieg (Thunder and Storm, Descent)

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Sonnenuntergang (Sunset)

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Ausklang (Final Sounds)

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Nacht (Night)

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Applause

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 19-21 and 23 September 2007
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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After the successful release of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben in 2004, Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra once again present two familiar symphonic poems by Richard Strauss, who had close ties with the then fledgling Concertgebouw Orchestra. This CD brings together live performances of Don Juan and Eine Alpensinfonie which were recorded during the 2007-8 season and which met with great acclaim both in and outside the Netherlands.Although Don Juan and Eine Alpensinfonie were not dedicated to Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, as Ein Heldenleben was, both works sound here as if they were written for the Amsterdam-based orchestra.

"A rich, dramatic Don Juan, built on bitter-sweet woodwind timbres, magnificently bright brasses and uncommonly velvety strings." [Don Juan] The New York Times concert review

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October 2008

…Mariss Jansons's… great lover is beefier if less nimble-footed than George Szell's (on Sony), with the woodwind repeated-note support crystal clear behind spacious strings. …Jansons's…Alpine Symphony… is unique in its grave beauty, and as fine a love recording as any we've had from the concert-halls of late.

2010

Mariss Jansons opens with a very exciting account of Don Juan, splendidly played, with plenty of impetus, and a touchingly gentle and sensuous account of the seduction scene. His richly expansive shaping of the great horn theme presents Juan as a nobly romantic seducer rather than one carried away by physical passion. But this makes a fine introduction to a truly outstanding account of the Alpine Symphony that ranks alongside Wit's celebrated Naxos version (see below) with the Weimar Staatskapelle, and in some ways is even finer.
Jansons structures the work unerringly and the Concertgebouw sound picture, with extraordinary vividness of detail at every stage of the journey, is remarkable. The entry into the forest is evocative indeed, as are the hunting horns echoing in the woods, while the spectacle of the storm and summit sequences are electrifying; the closing sequence with the Amsterdam deep brass as night falls has a wonderfully rich sonor- ity. The Concertgebouw string-playing has, of course, an eloquent sweep, and if the violins are less sensuously ravishing than at Weimar (partly the effect of closer microphone placing in Amsterdam) they play particularly beautifully in the score's gentler moments.
In short, this magnificent performance, gripping from the opening to the last chord, will be hard to beat.

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