Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

This is not Erich Kleiber's classic Decca recording of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier taped in the studio with the Wiener Philharmoniker in 1955 with Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Anton Dermota, Ludwig Weber, and the matchless Maria Reining as the Feldmarschallin. This is Kleiber's 1952 Rosenkavalier taped live with the Bayerischen Staatsorchester with Elisabeth Grümmer, Erna Berger, Karl Kamann, Kurt Böhme, and a slightly younger and thus perhaps slightly better Maria Reining. Anyone who hasn't heard the 1955 recording is ... Read More

This is not Erich Kleiber's classic Decca recording of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier taped in the studio with the Wiener Philharmoniker in 1955 with Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Anton Dermota, Ludwig Weber, and the matchless Maria Reining as the Feldmarschallin. This is Kleiber's 1952 Rosenkavalier taped live with the Bayerischen Staatsorchester with Elisabeth Grümmer, Erna Berger, Karl Kamann, Kurt Böhme, and a slightly younger and thus perhaps slightly better Maria Reining. Anyone who hasn't heard the 1955 recording is heartily urged to seek it out -- it's assuredly one of the great recorded Rosenkavaliers. But anyone who has heard the 1955 recording could probably not be restrained from checking out this 1952 recording. Not only does it have Reining's glowing Feldmarschallin at its heart, it also has Grümmer as a radiant Octavian, Berger as a luminous Sophia, and Böhme as a hilarious but still quite human Baron Ochs. At first, the playing of the Bavarian orchestra is surprisingly slipshod, but Kleiber... Read Less

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