Karl Böhm and Richard Strauss have a long, personal history dating back to the early '30s. Strauss, in fact, dedicated his opera Daphne to Böhm. And though neither Strauss nor Böhm were official members of the Nazi party, both had great success under the umbrella of the regime. While some critics are quick to point out their willingness to stay in Nazi Germany, perhaps they both merely carved their lives to fit the mold of circumstances they knew they could not alter. The set of tone poems featured on this release, which ...
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Karl Böhm and Richard Strauss have a long, personal history dating back to the early '30s. Strauss, in fact, dedicated his opera Daphne to Böhm. And though neither Strauss nor Böhm were official members of the Nazi party, both had great success under the umbrella of the regime. While some critics are quick to point out their willingness to stay in Nazi Germany, perhaps they both merely carved their lives to fit the mold of circumstances they knew they could not alter. The set of tone poems featured on this release, which spans three compact discs, consists of recordings made primarily in the 1950s of Böhm with the Dresden Staatskapelle, although three of the shorter works on disc -- Till Eulenspiegel, the waltz sequence from Der Rosenkavalier, and the Festliches Präludium -- were all recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic. Regrettably, the performance of the Alpine Symphony here does neither the work, nor the beautiful photo on the cover, justice. Not only are there a number of intonation problems...
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