Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut

As the other reviewer tells us in detail, Winer blut was a pastiche of leftover Strauss tunes, plus some familiar ones, cobbled together by other hands in hipes at ariving at a charming new operetta. The musical content is a cut above Ein Nacht in Venedig, which puts it wll below Zigeunerbaron and miles behind Fledermaus. But the score is a plesant listen, and here we have the champagne cast of all time. In one year, 1954, the starry ensemble of Schwarzkopf, Gedda, and Kunz recorded three complete operettas.Schwarkopf famously never san operetta on stage, but her great style and sophistication, closely followed by Gedda, offers the chief enjoyment here. Ackermann, as always, is expet without being effervescent or joyous.