Der Rosenkavalier (Complete Opera)

Erich Kleiber's landmark recording of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, now available on Decca Legends!
After 46 years, nobody has yet been able to better this historic performance. Erich Kleiber's conducting is unsurpassed and Ludwig Weber as Baron Ochs, Hilde Gueden as Sophie and Sena Jurinac as Octavian give definitive interpretations.

The sound of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is something special. In this music they had the tradition, especially at that time in their history. And that makes all the difference when you listen to it!

"The new London [Decca] Der Rosenkavalier is that extreme rarity - a recording that has to be played several times through before the hearer can quite believe that it is really as unequivocally superb as he found it at first. Still rarer, it really is.

Even by straining the imagination as far as it can be made to stretch, it is hardly possible to imagine the day when this recording will lose its value. Performances of operas so supremely right from beginning to end simply do not happen often at all, and the odds against one such Der Rosenkavalier coming to pass within range of microphones, much less of being transferred intact to records, with such great technical polish, are astronomical"
High Fidelity Magazine