Also sprach Zarathustra..

Fitting:


Also sprach Zarathustra prepares to take its leave and the orchestra ascends towards the outer reaches of the cosmos. Celestial woodwinds, their piquant dissonances voiced to induce fluttering harmonic interference, spacewalk towards pure B major triads as earthbound lower strings outline the fading memory of a C‑centred motif – C‑G‑C – which, 30 minutes earlier, we heard climbing like a flash of pure primary colour through the trumpet section. Most writing, thanks to genius film director Stanley Kubrick, about Also sprach Zarathustra begins by considering that trumpet motif. Kubrick’s borrowing of Strauss’s orchestral introduction to underscore the opening of his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey – the scene is set as the sun rises from behind the earth – remains one of the single most inspired link-ups between sound and imagery in cinematic history: good for film buffs but with unfortunate and unintended consequences for our understanding of Strauss’s music.
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