R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

An extensively cut version, with a good but not great cast, and some serious weaknesses. Karajan’s conducting is lucid but some of the tempos are excessively indulgent. Michael Tanner
 

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3

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:38 pm

COMPOSERS: R Strauss
LABELS: DG
WORKS: Der Rosenkavalier
PERFORMER: Tomowa-Sintow, Moll, Baltsa, Hornik, Perry, Lipp et al; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic/ Herbert von Karajan
CATALOGUE NO: DG 477 9131

An extensively cut version, with a good but not great cast, and some serious weaknesses. Karajan’s conducting is lucid but some of the tempos are excessively indulgent. 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.
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