Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949 ... Schwarzkopf’s recordings (she made a second disc with George Szell in the mid-1960s) have long been the standard ...

The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has ... professional adroitness and sophistication. Richard’s formal academic ...