Strauss: An Alpine Symphony; Four Songs Op 27 album review – Nothing is overblown or indulgent

Alder/FRSO/Collon
(Ondine)
Conductor Nicholas Collon keeps the sound clean and the pace dynamic in a bracing recording, while, in the Four Songs op 27,Louise Alder is unfailingly communicativeThe ascent and descent depicted in Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony can seem like a long slog, but not in the bracing new recording from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Nicholas Collon’s conducting keeps the sound clean and the pace dynamic, capturing the hulking, almost supernatural g