R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Blessed with a superb Octavian, Frederica von Stade, but not a great deal else. Evelyn Lear’s Marschallin
is only tolerable. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:38 pm

COMPOSERS: R Strauss
LABELS: Rotterdam Philharmonic Vintage Recording
WORKS: Der Rosenkavalier
PERFORMER: Lear, Von Stade, Bastin, Hammond-Stroud, Welting, Carreras; The Netherlands Opera; Rotterdam Philharmonic/de Waart
CATALOGUE NO: RPVR 2011-1 (1976)

Blessed with a superb Octavian, Frederica von Stade, but not a great deal else. Evelyn Lear’s Marschallin

is only tolerable. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.

R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

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