Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony”

Program & Artists

All-Richard Strauss Program
Burleske
Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day)
An Alpine Symphony

Leon Botstein conductor
Blair McMillen piano
Members of the Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell choral director
An Alpine Symphony performed with members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

Tickets

Botstein Bundle 35% off the full price
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Packages available starting Aug 19

Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series

After a string of successful tone poems, An Alpine Symphony was Richard Strauss’s first such composition after nearly a dozen years of focusing on opera. Written for a massive orchestra that includes such rarities as the heckelphone, thunder sheets, a wind machine, and other unusual effects, this gloriously opulent masterpiece takes listeners through the ascent and descent of a mountain in the Alps, with meadows, streams, storms, and vistas along the way. Also on the program are Strauss’s Burleske for Piano and Orchestra, performed with Blair McMillen, and the vivacious Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day), a setting of four nature poems by Joseph von Eichendorff.

Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before TŌN performs it at Carnegie Hall.

These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.

Concert Details

The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Richard Strauss Burleske in D Minor, TrV 145
Blair McMillen piano
20 min
Listen

Richard Strauss Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day), TrV 256, Op. 76
Members of the Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell choral director
23 min
Listen

Intermission
20 min

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Richard Strauss An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie), TrV 233, Op. 64
Performed with members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
47 min
Listen

All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.

Sample the Music

R. Strauss Burleske

R. Strauss Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day)

R. Strauss An Alpine Symphony

Photo: The Orchestra Now by Patrick Arias

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