(1864-1949) This week's programmes concentrate on the Indian summer of Strauss's life as a composer - the great sequence of works he wrote between 1940 and his death.
Duet Concertino, for clarinet and bassoon, with strings and harp: MANFRED WEISE (clarinet) WOLFGANG LIEBSCHER (baSSOOn) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
9.23* Japanese Festival Music. Op 84 (mono)
BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.37* Final Scene: Capriccio, Op 85: ELISABETH SODERSTROM
(soprano), NORRKOPING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ULF BJÖRLIN : records