Moiseiwitsch plays Strauss/Godowsky "Fledermaus" Paraphrase (1928) 

In Viennese cuisine, desserts are extremely important: how about a piece of Zwetschkenfleck, Apfelstrudel or some Kaiserschmarren à la Sacher? Irresistible! :-P

pianopera Apfelstrudel, Ya!! The other two sound yummy, but I haven't the vaguest idea of what they are. So, for the moment, I'll just stick with the Strauss a la Godowsky. Anyway, thanks for this tasty pastry, Erwin.☺

The Godowsky paraphrases are much more intricate music.

This music is not kitsch, if you go by the definition of kitsch as supplied by Whylie Sypher in his splendid book "Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature" (1960). Sypher says that the function of kitch is to deflect the empathy of the middle classes so that they weep at pictures of barns or farms with cute young and clean children, while the real things (children) are being worked to death just down the road. The good middle class person swoons at the art and buys it, but does nothing about the real children being paid starvation wages, and being worked 16 hours a day in factories in early to mid capitalism. This music by Godowsky doesn't deflect anything. It's an intellectual collage of effects derived from the melodies of Strauss II music and an opera of his. If anything, listening to this makes me want to go to the opera to hear it, or for that matter, to hear any opera.

Godowsky elevates the original. You need a fresh pair of ears