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Strauss Conducts Historically, If Not Convincingly

David Hurwitz

Artistic Quality:

  • 7

Sound Quality:

  • 3
It’s always interesting to hear a composer conduct his own […]
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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: None for this coupling

Strauss: Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Death and Transfiguration, Ein Heldenleben, Don Quixote, Dance of the Seven Veils, Symphonic Interlude from Intermezzo, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Waltz Sequences from Der Rosenkavalier, Japanische Festmusik, Four Lieder
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39-41; Overture to The Magic Flute
Overtures by Wagner, Gluck, Weber, and Cornelius

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