Marking the 100th anniversary of An Alpine Symphony, take a guided tour through Strauss' evocative music with conductor Semyon Bychkov and author... Richard Strauss' Musical Mountain Climb Harrowing ...

The season closes with two genuine masterpieces – Mozart’s sprightly Symphony No. 40 in G minor, a work deeply admired by Richard Strauss, and Strauss’ monumental An Alpine Symphony, a composition of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trip to the top of the world is in order for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) this weekend as it presents Richard Strauss’ ...

“The Alpine Symphony” doesn’t come around very often. One reason is scale. Richard Strauss’ monumental tone poem requires an extravagant orchestra of 150. Another reason is taste. A spectacular ...

Richard Strauss wasn't exactly the outdoorsy, energetic, mountain-climbing kind of guy. I've seen rare footage of the great composer conducting an orchestra and he barely moved his arms. In fact, I ...

One of Richard Strauss's favourite orchestras, the Dresden Staatskapelle is partway through a major retrospective of his works with their new music director, Fabio Luisi. The coupling of this latest ...

Yoor-ai Val-choo-ah is how the name's pronounced — it's spelled Juraj Valcuha — and it might be worth getting to know how to pronounce it. The Slovakian conductor has returned to the Minnesota ...

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...

Harrowing tales of mountain climbing filled theaters this summer in such films as Meru and Everest. But exactly 100 years ago today, audiences took a different kind of climb when Richard Strauss ...