Strauss: Four Last Songs / Death and Transfiguration / Metamorphoses

50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 42) - BBC MUSIC -

"Even among the remarkable number of first-rate recordings of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs currently in the catalogue (and there are over 40) Gundula Janowitz still excels. Her performance is wistful and nostalgic, of course, but Janowitz also bewitches and enchants like no other as she interweaves her soprano line around Karajan's sublimely paced and immaculately played orchestral accompaniment." BBC Music