‘On this evidence, the great harbinger of modernism among Strauss’s tone poems is Don Quixote’ David Nice
R Strauss Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Alban Gerhardt (cello), Lawrence Power (viola); Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne/Markus Stenz Hyperion CDA 67960 55:11 mins
Audio clip: from ‘The Adventures of the Windmills’
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