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Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks/Don Juan/Death And Transfiguration | 
 enlarge | Creators: Richard Strauss, George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 57482
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 36721
UPC: 074643672122
EAN: 0074643672122
ASIN: B0000025JH
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28 | | • | Don Juan, Op. 20 | | • | Death And Transfiguration, Op. 24 |
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| Customer Reviews:
Strauss served straight, no chaser January 12, 2003
Paul Bubny (Maplewood, NJ United States)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
George Szell was not a conductor much given to bombast. Clarity, precision and directness were his watchwords, and his overall approach serves the music of his onetime boss very, very well. Strauss' lushly (not to mention densely) scored tone-poems are creamy enough without the conductor upping the cholesterol count, and this Szell does not do. What he does is present the music straight, letting it speak for itself, and the Cleveland Orchestra--which Szell turned from an okay provincial ensemble into one of the world's great orchestras (which it still is)--responds brilliantly. The sound quality is dated and a little constricted, but that's a minor complaint.
Can't Go Wrong July 30, 2002
Christopher Forbes (Brooklyn,, NY)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
In general, I don't think you can go wrong with Szell's magnificent accounts of these perenial Strauss favorites. The Columbia sound of the 60s was in many ways far superior to modern recorded sound, warmer and much more live. And Szell was a great conductor for this kind of music. It doesn't require an extreme personality, and in fact, doesn't respond well to that kind of conducting. Szell was nothing if not workmanlike...just what Strauss' tone poems need.
One of the essential Strauss tone poem recordings. December 7, 1998
Nicholas Fox(SARAANNE.FOX@WORLDNET.ATT.NET) (Los Angeles, CA)
37 out of 38 found this review helpful
Yet another great Szell/Cleveland recording. It seemed that everything George Szell touched in the recording studio turned to gold, and this fabulous recording is no different. Along with Reiner's 1954 'Zarathustra' and Karajan's 1959 'Heldenleben' and 1976 'Don Quixote,' this is one of the truly essential Strauss tone poem recordings. Szell, who was an assistant to Strauss himself, removes the usual bombastic interpretive dust and lets the music speak clearly and articulately. Everything that is marvelous about this music Szell simply gives you--no show, nothing overdone. And this makes the music all the more effective. For instance, in Death and Transfiguration, the first three statements of the 'Transfiguration' theme are much faster than usual. This may lead some to say that Szell is being cold and unemotional. But where Szell's genius lies is that he realizes the truly climactic statement of this theme is at the end of the piece. When Szell reaches the final, orgasmic statements of the theme, he then drastically slows the tempo down. This makes the moment 100 times as effectice, moving and powerful as usual. Just one among many marvels that listeners will find in these great recordings.
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