Staatskapelle Dresden - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel, Don Juan

Staatskapelle Dresden - R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel, Don JuanRudolf Kempe's recordings of Richard Strauss have long been prized for their unparalleled clarity and subtlety in music that has come to define the late Romantic temperament and it's expression of highly strung emotions, whether in a state of Nietzschean exaltation, on the summits of 'Also sprach Zarathustra' or in the post war despair of 'Metamorphosen'. Strauss loves the complex textures that Kempe and the Staatskapelle Dresden clarify with the

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