Also Sprach Zarathustra

Also Sprach Zarathustra

• DUDAMEL GUSTAVO / BERLINER PHILHARMONIK R. STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA

A truly breathtaking new recording from, quite simply, the most exciting and gifted young conductor of our times.<br><br>A rite of passage and true legacy project: Dudamels debut recording with the legendary Berlin Philharmonic.<br><br>Recorded live at the Philharmonie in Berlin, whose acoustics were designed expressly for the brilliant, luxurious tonalities of this late-romantic music.<br><br>Specially-commissioned conceptual album presentation, visuals and tools all designed to appeal to a broad discovery audience.<br><br>Epic, evocative and virtuosic, Richard Strausss beloved tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra, was inspired by Nietzsches poem, and immortalized in Kubricks science-fiction cinema classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey.<br><br>Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel are concert-hall favorites: ebullient, optimistic and filled with Straussian melodic and harmonic invention.<br><br>The first significant new release for Strauss anniversary year (2014).<br><br>Gustavo Dudamel earned a Best Orchestral Recording Grammy® in 2012 for his recording of Brahms Symphony No. 4 with the LA Philharmonic and was named Musical Americas Musician of the Year for 2013.