Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly review – vivid Strauss and understated Mozart
Riccardo Chailly’s precision and energy made for a magnificent performance of two of Strauss’s tone poems; but Maria João Pires’s Mozart sometimes felt detached
Strauss: Feuersnot CD review – low-key and thoughtful
Ulf Schirmer offers an uncommonly incisive interpretation of Richard Strauss’s ribald comedy
Salomé, Wexford festival review – Antoine Mariotte, anyone?
The biggest draw at the 63rd Wexford festival was a rarely seen opera by a French naval officer, writes Fiona Maddocks
LSO/Pappano review – digging deep into powerful emotions
Pappano brought nobility to a celebration of Panufnik and brilliantly evoked Strauss’s pride, anger and beauty, writes Tim Ashley
Strauss: Intermezzo CD review – darker than ever before
Strauss’s autobiographical opera, usually presented as a sad comedy, is more troubling and abrasive here, writes Tim Ashley
Strauss: Josephslegende CD review – beautifully performed rarity
Strauss’s first completed ballet score, criticised as ‘undanceable’, is played here with sensuous immediacy by the Weimar Staatskapelle, writes Tim Ashley
Proms 58 & 59 – shattering, gut-wrenching Strauss
Sopranos Nina Stemme and Christine Goerke are outstanding as Salome and Elektra, writes Fiona Maddocks
Prom 59: Strauss’s Elektra review – a highlight of the season
The BBCSO was on vibrant form under Semyon Bychkov, while the five main principals struck sparks off one another, writes Erica Jeal
Prom 58: Salome review – intense, unsparing and magnificent
Nina Stemme's radiant Salome stole the show as Donald Runnicles treated Strauss lovers to a delicious rarity, writes Erica Jeal
Strauss: Elektra review – singers surf on waves of sumptuousness
The sheer tonal beauty of the Dresden Staatskapelle stands out in this fine recording, with a fine cast led by Evelyn Herlitzius, writes Andrew Clements
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland review – brave and exuberant
The young players touched on swing and bebop before scaling Richard Strauss's massive An Alpine Symphony, writes Alfred Hickling
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel review – a showcase for CBSO’s superb playing
The across-the-board talents of his orchestra are matched by conductor Andris Nelsons's gifts as a Strauss interpreter, writes Andrew Clements
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony review – a sumptuous, well-paced live recording
Daniel Harding conducts the great Saito Kinen Orchestra for a wide-ranging performance of Schubert's most grandiloquent orchestral score, writes Andrew Clements
LSO/Mark Elder review – a matchless Rosenkavalier
Soloists Sarah Connolly, Anne Schwanewilms and Lucy Crowe brought sensitivity and poise to Strauss's opera, and the LSO gave full value to the score's heady harmonic surges and misty-eyed nostalgia, writes George Hall
LSO/Mark Elder/Imogen Cooper review – a breath of fresh air for Strauss’s 150th anniversary
Mark Elder oversees a wonderful performance of the rarely heard tone poem Macbeth, writes Guy Dammann