R. Strauss
“Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, in the name-part, gives one of her very finest opera performances on record. It is a radiant portrait, languourously beautiful … Franz Grundheber makes a firm, virile Mandryka, Peter Seiffert a first-rate Matteo, while Helga Dernesch is outstandingly characterful as Arabella’s mother. Tate’s conducting is richly sympathetic and the Decca recording is first class.” The Penguin Guide