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Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes, Burleske, Capriccio Sextet.(Sound Recording Review)

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Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes; Burleske; Capriccio Sextet. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. Decca B0004645-02.

I'm not sure we needed another recording of the Rosenkavalier Waltzes, but here we get two of them. Strauss was not too keen on arranging a suite of waltzes from the opera himself, yet he was never too happy with the suite arranged by Otto Singer and others, either. In 1944, with apparently nothing else to do, he finally got around to putting together a sequence of waltzes from Acts 1 and 2, along with some new connecting material to make the whole thing hang together better. Herbert Blomstedt conducts both this suite and the anonymous one of tunes from Act 3, along with two couplings, the Burleskefor Piano and Orchestra, with Jean-Yves Tibaudet as soloist, and the Sextet that opens the opera Capriccio. Blomstedt's ...

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