A space Odyssey

Orchestral music from Richard Strauss with the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan again. Very much core repertoire for that combination. This cd's major piece is Also Sprach Zarathustra but it also contains Till Eulenspiegel, Don Juan and the Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome. ASZ has the famous opening from 2001, A Space Odyssey, of course. Not sure how coherent a piece the rest of it is, there's over thirty minutes after that short burst. Till Eulenspiegel's 15 minutes seems a very frequently used filler for BBC Radio 3 too. Listening to this cd again, I was struck by my changing tastes since first getting into classical music. Richard Strauss then appealed very much with the drama and orchestration but a lot of it now seems a bit overblown to me. Occasional small doses would now suffice for many of the pieces I have.