There has always been a need for more recordings of the orchestral music Richard Strauss extracted from his operas. While The Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome and the Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier have always titillated and captivated audiences, there is a lot more music where they came from and there have always been relatively too few recordings of, say, the Pot-pourri from Die schweigsame Frau. In these recordings from the early '90s with Jeffrey Tate and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, there is not only the Pot-pourri ...
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There has always been a need for more recordings of the orchestral music Richard Strauss extracted from his operas. While The Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome and the Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier have always titillated and captivated audiences, there is a lot more music where they came from and there have always been relatively too few recordings of, say, the Pot-pourri from Die schweigsame Frau. In these recordings from the early '90s with Jeffrey Tate and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, there is not only the Pot-pourri but the Interludes from Intermezzo, the Sextet from Capriccio, and the Symphonischefantasie from Die Frau ohne Schatten along with the almost never recorded Prelude from Guntram. Tate and the Rotterdam seem to be enjoying themselves thoroughly, reveling in the most succulent cuts of Strauss' opulent operas. Although torn from their original context, Strauss' voluptuous music does not make dramatic sense, in Tate and the Rotterdam's ardent performances it is always gloriously...
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