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 […]