Great moments from two of Strauss’ mightiest operas are distilled in these rich suites from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Horns blaze across dark skies in Honeck’s arrangement of Elektra, which recalls the most searing musical events from Strauss’ modern and mythically powerful work.
- 1997
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & JoAnn Falletta
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink
- Heath Quartet
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko
- Seattle Symphony & Thomas Dausgaard
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Kent Nagano