Korngold
“Decca’s magnificent recording amply confirms the view that this is Korngold’s masterpiece, musically even richer than his better-known opera, Die tote Stadt. John Mauceri draws glorious sounds from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the cast is headed by three outstanding singers, the soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow at her richest, an impressive American Heldentenor, John David de Haan, as the stranger and Hartmut Welker as the Ruler. The Penguin Guide