Richard Strauss will always be my absolut favorite composer ..Music from Heaven. i love the last 2 minutes of the first act.. ..the music is sooooo beautiful ...fantastic singers : Baltsa ❤ and Sintow❤ and Moll ... the Orchester and of course Karajan thx for posting
Anna Tomowa-Sintow vocally and dramatically is my favorite Marschallin. The voice is unique and unmistakeable, she really emphasises the fact that the Marschallin is a woman straining against the decorum of her station. I expected to enjoy Baltsa more, but she sounds underpowered and a size too small for the role. Maybe I've been listening to too much Jurinac. Janet Perry isn't in this act, but she made no impression on me at all.
@@herbertstrenn1635I said I found it underpowered here in the Strauss idiom. Something about her voice for me lacks a little color and weight for the rich orchestral texture.
