The aspect of Richard Strauss 's life which continues to attract most controversy is his relationship with the Nazi party. But the seeds of Strauss's anti-semitism were sown in him long before the emergence of Hitler and the National Socialists, principally by his father. Today
Donald Macleod explores the course of Strauss's involvement with the Nazis and the body they set up to oversee German musical life, the Reichs Musik Kammer. Das Bachlein , Op 88 No 1
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), LSO, conductor George Szell
Olympic Hymn Locke Brass Consort , conductor James Stobart
Also Sprach Zarathustra Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Friedenstag (excerpt)
Choir of Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian RSO, conductor WolfgangSawallisch