Waltzes for the New Year, as is traditional.

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier premiered in Dresden on 26 January 1911 and was an immediate success. Before the end of the year, the three leading sopranos from the premiere (Margarethe Siems, Minnie Nast and Eva Plaschke-von der Osten) had recorded excerpts for both Odeon and The Gramophone Company. In each case the records were released alongside orchestral records of Otto Singer’s arrangement of Waltz movements from the score.

The one presented here is a December 1911 recording recorded in Berlin by the Gramophone Company, with the Neues-Tonkünstler Orchester and no conductor identified. My copy of the record is very worn and noisy (especially at the start of the first side).

As well as these, Odeon and the Gramophone company recorded various other versions of the orchestral waltzes and other excerpts, some of which were issued.

R Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier – Walzer – Neues Tonkünstler Orchester

His Masters Voice C 432
Matrices 87al, 88al (040675/6)
Recorded 9 December 1911, issued double sided in the UK September 1915
The piano-conductor score on IMSLP shows that side 1 contains page 1 to 5 (from the start to figure 7), and that side 2 contains page 5 (anacrusis to fig 9) to page 9 (figure 13), page 9 (5 bars before figure 14) to page 10 (end).