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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Strauss: Don Quixote & Tod und Verklärung
“There is much to enjoy in Jiri Kout's forthright way with Strauss. He leads an overtly pictorial performance of Don Quixote with a buoyant, flexible beat. His purposeful phrasing always holds interest...Still, Kout's mastery proves not quite comprehensive. An occasional lack of rhythmic grounding makes the musical strands line up imprecisely.” MusicWeb International, June 2012 | |
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| |  | Richard Strauss conducts Don Quixote Op. 35 (1941 version)
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| |  | Richard Strauss: Burleske & Don Quixote
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| |  | Richard Strauss - Komponist, Dirigent, Pianist und Klavierbelgei
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| |  | Strauss - Don Juan, Aus Italien & Don Quixote
Fabio Luisi and Staatskapelle Dresden return with another definitive recording of music by Richard Strauss. This album includes three of his great tone poems, Don Juan, Aus Italien and Don Quixote. “The rich if very reverberant sound is a pleasure” BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 *** “[Don Juan] ranks among the finest available versions of the work. Slower than some performances, it's beautifully refined, phenomenally played and very erotic. Aus Italien is comparably gorgeous” The Guardian, 11th March 2010 “...played with finesse and swagger by an orchestra intimately associated with the composer...Buy while stocks last. And expect to hear a lot more of the liberated Luisi.” The Observer, 14th February 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Hans Knapperbusch conducts Strauss, Respighi & Pfitzner
These performances were recorded in Munich in 1957 and 1958. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Dmitri Mitropoulos conducts StraussRecording: Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, 7 September 1959
The Greek born Dmitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a musical phenomenon, composing at the age of 11, a virtuoso pianist whose live performances and recording of Prokofiev's Piano Concert No.3 caused a sensation, and lastly as a conductor who led the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1949, a seminal period in the orchestra's history before moving on as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 1949 to a shared conductorship with his protégé, Leonard Bernstein from 1957/1958 to be replaced by the latter in 1959. Mitropoulos was by this time conducting regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Concertgebouw and the Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester before ill health finally caused his death in 1960 while conducting the La Scala orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No.3 Mitropoulos was a superb conductor of Richard Strauss as his regular Salzburg concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic testify. The WDR live studio recordings use only the original masters and the sound is sensational, particularly in Strauss's powerful and atmospheric Also Sprach Zarathustra. Don Quixote demonstrates Mitropoulos's acute sense of tone painting and characterization. This is the second Mitropoulos CD sourced from WDR in Cologne, the first being a coupling of Mendelssohn's Symphonies Nos 3 "Scottish" and No.5 "Reformation" which received excellent reviews. This is the first authorised release of these recordings. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mstislav Rostropovich
A rarity from the British Library Sound Archive - Mstislav Rostropovich in a dramatic live account of Richard Strauss's Don Quixote given during an early visit to the London Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1964. Rostropovich only recorded the work eleven years later in 1975 in a studio version. Haydn's Cello Concerto in D from 1965 follows on Rostropovich's account of the earlier Concerto in C (BBCL 4198-2) which was given excellent reviews at the time of it's release. “This BBC Legends issue celebrates the playing of Mstislav Rostropovich relatively early in his career. The disc also provides a welcome reminder that, at a time when his reputation has rather fallen back, Malcolm Sargent always produced his best performances at the Proms and that he was always at his best in late Romantic music such as that of Strauss.
Rostropovich's playing is masterly, dominating each performance with its magnetism as well as its resonance. Harry Danks, principal viola in the BBC SO for many years, makes a colourful character out of the faithful Sancho Panza, bringing out the wit of the writing even if his tone is no match for the resonant cello of the principal soloist. Each of the 10 variations is presented in clean separation, with the orchestral players relishing the often spectacular orchestral effects, like the imitation of the bleating of sheep in the second variation, the brilliant percussion-writing in the 'Ride through the Air' and the powerful brass and ominous timpani beats in 'Defeat of Don Quixote'.
That leads up to the most glorious playing of all from Rostropovich in the long epilogue marking the Don's death. He uses a very free vibrato, and yet in the close of his solo his pianissimo is breathtaking. For radio recordings of the mid-1960s the sound is excellent and Tully Potter's notes are exemplary.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Rostropovich's playing is masterly, dominating each performance with its magnetism as well as its resonance.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Strauss: Don Quixote & Ein Heldenleben
Sony BMG presents a range of DVDs released to commemorate Herbert van Karajan’s 100th birthday on April 5th 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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“Both works (Haydn Variations and Don Quixote) were well known to the RPO by this time and the
performances exude that ease of understanding which saw Beecham at his best, enabling the great man to add
any spontaneous touches as he felt fit. The results are superbly compelling accounts.” International Record Review, October 2007 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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