Coinciding with the Austrian release of Rémy Ballot’s live recordings from the Richard Strauss Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (international release on 24.3), the Pizzicato Magazine is publishing a first excellent review:

‘If the symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss is the reminiscence of an old man, if such reminiscence displaces the negative and emphasizes the positive, if the lyrical passages are brought to the highest expressiveness through warmth, then a conductor is at work who can realize this tone poem coherently and intensively at the same time.

Thus Ballot, an acknowledged Bruckner conductor, also proves to be an excellent Strauss interpreter.‘