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An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strauss鈥檚 character-based tonepoems with what is probably his most impressive piece of musical architecture.

Whether depicting a bracing mountain climb or the slow formation of the mountain range itself, the work has a magnificence all of its own, particularly when resounding through the Royal Albert Hall. The 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov scales its heights here, after Wagner鈥檚 unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck and the first UK performance of Thomas Larcher鈥檚 Symphony No. 2.