Strauss R

A strikingly effective, imaginative production of Strauss’s rarely seen bourgeois comedy opera [EJW]

Music and performances that bubble like good Bohemian Sekt [NB]

Beecham full of flair but with somewhat foggy sonics in live Royal Festival Hall broadcasts [JW]

Pristine delivers a top notch refurbishment of this classic recording [MP]

Richard Strauss’s domestic drama powerfully reimagined by Tobias Kratzer [DHa]

More excellence in this ongoing series, including a superb “New World” symphony [PSt]

Good but hardly essential accounts of music for which we already have so many great recordings [RMo]

An impressive brace of Strauss tone poems of interesting provenance [RMo]

Listeners seeking a completely unabridged Elektra may want to give this haphazard ‘karaoke version’ a miss [SSc]

(Déjà Review) Chandos can be proud with this latest addition to their Opera in English series [GF]

(Déjà Review) Real emotional and sonic surge [DH] 

(Déjà Review) A deserved classic [JW]

(Déjà Review) We must be grateful for the opportunity to hear this great soprano [ABo]

Once again, Pristine breathes new life into an imperishable classic of the gramophone [RMo]

A grand, more leisurely and reflective Ein Heldenleben which is wholly successful on its own terms [RMo]

(Déjà Review) I’ll be coming back to this again and again [ST]

(Déjà Review) Varnay and Fischer are superb, alas in compromised sound [DH]

If you like your Richard Strauss vigorous and in full technicolour sound, then you will want to hear this performance [TP]

(Déjà Review) Another hard-to-resist entrant for the Beecham collector [JW]

Klaus Tennstedt in repertoire he did not record commercially, in variable sound [LD]

An excellent film of a good production and performance [RWe]

A compelling lieder recital, cutting edge, joyful and poignant [DHa]

A superb new recording of Strauss’s disturbing masterpiece [SB]

A thoroughly disappointing recording, poorly sung, indifferently conducted and afflicted by problems in the recorded balance [RMo]