Masters of Classical Music - Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie

The series Masters of Classical Music allows the listener to experience and enjoy great music from the Baroque period up to the present day in an entirely new way, offering a combination of documentary material and a complete performance of the featured work. This episode includes a live-recording of the Alpensinfonie from the Semperoper Dresden with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Giuseppe Sinopoli. In his Alpine Symphony, Richard Strauss pulled all the stops in creating a musical landscape full of surprising tone-paintings. In the documentary shows the well-known music journalist Habakuk Traber how the unrivaled master in the art of instrumentation produced a fascinating synthesis of symphony and program music.