London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner - Strauss: An Alpine Symphony Metamorphosen (CD) (New (N)) Sharp Pins UPC: 670573061526

UPC: 670573061526

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London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner - Strauss: An Alpine Symphony Metamorphosen (CD) (New (N)) Sharp Pins UPC: 670573061526The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner present two works that stand at opposite ends of Richard Strauss's creative life, effectively bookending the two World Wars of the 20th century. Strauss's depiction of a day in the life of an Alpine mountain was completed as the First World War took hold, while his deeply personal threnody for German musical life was written in the final months of the Second World War. Now in the fifth year of his