| The diary travelled across the length and breadth of South Africa, just as it accompanies Strauss wherever he plays cricket in this country. |
| None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs. |
| After this admirable book, the reader can return to listening to Strauss with added enjoyment. |
| Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. |
| 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. |
