Description:

Pros:

• Recorded just one year after Strauss’ death and 33 years after the work’s premiere, this recording offers an interesting glimpse into Strauss’ mystical opera’s origins.
• Annelies Kupper’s silvery soprano is perfect in the title role.
• Heinrich Bensing burly, yet lyrical tenor, makes the Emporer’s daunting music sound easy.
• In the role of the falcon, a young Christa Ludwig gets a taste for an opera that she would one day own.
• The sound is excellent.

Cons:

• Erna Schlüter falls short as the Dyer’s wife. She just cannot cope with the tessitura of the part despite taking down many of the high notes.

In Mono

OD 11662-3