“The Alpine Symphony” doesn’t come around very often. One reason is scale. Richard Strauss’ monumental tone poem requires an extravagant orchestra of 150. Another reason is taste. A spectacular ...

Harrowing tales of mountain climbing filled theaters this summer in such films as Meru and Everest. But exactly 100 years ago today, audiences took a different kind of climb when Richard Strauss ...

The season closes with two genuine masterpieces – Mozart’s sprightly Symphony No. 40 in G minor, a work deeply admired by Richard Strauss, and Strauss’ monumental An Alpine Symphony, a composition of ...

Conductor Eckart Preu led the members of the Spokane Symphony to a Straussian summit Saturday as the orchestra opened its 2008-09 season. Richard Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony” represents some ...

For the past two weeks, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons have been warming up for their upcoming tour of Japan by giving Symphony Hall listeners a sneak preview of the ...

Blomstedt lingers affectionately on the Alpine slopes, savoring every crag and meadow of the landscape; his ”Don Juan” boasts an exhilarating swagger. De Waart`s traversal is sympathetic, if a bit ...

Richard Strauss wasn't exactly the outdoorsy, energetic, mountain-climbing kind of guy. I've seen rare footage of the great composer conducting an orchestra and he barely moved his arms. In fact, I ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a revelatory performance of Strauss’s ...

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra opened its 2022-'23 season Friday evening with a program that pulled out all the proverbial stops. The orchestra, under the baton of music director Ken-David Masur, ...

It’s always a thrill when the Seattle Symphony presents those late-romantic over-the-top works that require extra instrumentation. The current SSO program of music by Richard Strauss, unveiled ...