Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review - monumental works mystic vision guides Petrenko

RPO/Petrenko(Harmonia Mundi)Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonics take on Strausss tone poem is full of darkness and light, with an impressionists eye for detailsThis is the third recording of Richard Strausss 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 to clamber up and down the composers musical mountain than Edward Gardner or Nicholas ...