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...LEWIS L. STRAUSS...
What has kept this work, which Strauss regarded as his most important effort, out of the standard repertory is its length (four hours) and the wild complexity of Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto, compared to which a combination of The Magic Flute and Parsifal would seem simple. The story, embroidered by Librettist Hofmannsthal with the myths of not one but half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who, being born of a spirit, does not possess anything as human as a shadow-or the ability to bear children. Since she is married to a more human ruler...
This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
...listeners inclined to an earlier, lusher and more lyrical Richard Strauss. Angel has a superb new Rosenkavalier (on 4 LPs). Strauss's swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
...Chairman Lewis Strauss last week tried to head off mounting congressional criticism on the slowness of U.S. reactor development. Dedicating the AEC's $17 million experimental sodium reactor in the Santa Susana Mountains near Los Angeles, which will supply 6,500 kw. of electricity to the Southern California Edison Co., Strauss indicated that more Government money would now go into such advanced plants. Present plans already call for a $1 billion investment by the mid-1960s "in some 18 or 20 nuclear power plants serving homes and industries across our nation...