| Both Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss weathered the opening hostility and, aided by the lack of a third man, started scoring freely. |
| Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text. |
| None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs. |
| It is now a permanent part of classical popular music, in the same way as the waltzes of Strauss or the marches of Sousa. |
| On the lieder disc there are songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss, plus Mahler's complete Kindertotenlieder. |
| Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. |
