CD: Strauss: Salome

Charles Mackerras is not usually mentioned when outstanding Strauss conductors are considered. But as this latest addition to Chandos's Opera in English series shows, he is an outstanding Straussian, and it's his account of a score that, in the past, has been characterised as a tone poem with voices, together with the Philharmonia's gorgeously vivid playing of it, that makes this so memorable. That's not to downgrade any of the singers, who all get Tom Hammond's no-nonsense English text across w...

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