Strauss: Elektra Libretto by HUGO ; VON HOFMANNSTHAL
The opera is part of a series illustrating the new directions in music and society during the years preceding the First World War sung in German: on records
Introduced bv WILLIAM MANN The scene: Mycenae
SAXON STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(George Steiner on The Crisis of the Word: 18 February)