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Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review – monumental work’s mystic vision guides Petrenko
Sunday, November 1, 2026 · 8:00 AM
RPO/Petrenko (Harmonia Mundi) Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic’s take on Strauss’s tone poem is full of darkness and light, with an impressionist’s eye for details This is the third recording of Richard Strauss’s monumental tone poem to appear in the last year, and in some respects the most interesting. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra adopt an expansive view, taking three minutes longer
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