| Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text. |
| The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable. |
| The diary travelled across the length and breadth of South Africa, just as it accompanies Strauss wherever he plays cricket in this country. |
| On the lieder disc there are songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss, plus Mahler's complete Kindertotenlieder. |
| Like a Strauss tone poem, the scoring is opulent, wide-ranging, but unmistakably Czech in its harmonic language. |
| Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. |
