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Disc 1:

1. Act One: Intro - Philharmonia Orch/Herbert Von Karajan
2. Act One: Wie Du Warst! Wie Du Bist! - Christa Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
3. Act One: Lachst Du Mich Aus? ...Lach' Ich Dich Aus? - Christa Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
4. Act One: Der Feldmarschall Sitzt Im Krowatischen Wald - Christa Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
5. Act One: Quinquin, Es Ist Ein Besuch - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Erich Mjkut/Gerhard Unger/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig
6. Act One: Selbstverstandlich Empfangt Mich Ihro Gnaden - Otto Edelmann/Gerhard Unger/Erich Majkut/Eberhard Wachter/Harald Proglhof
7. Act One: Euer Gnaden Werden Vielleicht Verwundert Sein - Otto Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
8. Act One: Dann Ziehen Wir Ins Palais Von Faninal - Otto Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger
9. Act One: Hat Sie Schon Einmal Mit Einem Kavalier - Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
10. Act One: Geben Mir Euer Gnaden Den Grasaff' Da - Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
11. Act One: I Komm' Glei'... Drei Arme, Adelige Waisen - Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Christa Ludwig/Kerstin Meyer/Anny Felbermayer/Gerhard Unger...
12. Act One: Di Rigori Armato Il Seno - Nicolai Gedda
13. Act One: Als Morgengabe, Ganz Separatim Jedoch - Otto Edelmann/Harald Proglhof/Nicolai Gedda
14. Act One: Mein Lieber Hippolyte - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Kerstin Meyer/Christa Ludwig/Kerstin Meyer
15. Act One: Da Geht Er Hin, Der Aufgeblasene Schlechte Kerl - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
16. Act One: Ach, Du Bist Wieder Da? - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Eberhard Wachter
17. Act One: Oh, Sei Er Gut, Quinquin - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Eberhard Wachter
18. Act One: Die Zeit Im Grunde, Quinquin - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
19. Act One: Mein Schoner Schatz - Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
20. Act One: Quinquin, Er Soll Jetzt Geh'n - Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
21. Act One: Ich Hab' Ihn Nicht Einmal Gekusst! - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Gerhard Unger/Erich Majkut/Eberhard Wachter/Harald Proglhof

Disc 2:

1. Act Two: Ein Ernster Tag, Ein Grosser Tag - Eberhard Wachter/Ljuba Welitsch/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger
2. Act Two: In Dieser Feierlichen Stunde Der Prufung - Teresa Stich-Randall/Ljuba Welitsch
3. Act Two: Mir Ist Die Ehre Widerfahren - Eberhard Wachter/Teresa Stich-Randall
4. Act Two: Hat Einen Starken Geruch Wie Rosen - Eberhard Wachter/Teresa Stich-Randall
5. Act Two: Wo War Ich Schon Einmal Und War So Selig? - Eberhard Wachter/Teresa Stich-Randall
6. Act Two: Ich Kenn' Ihn Doch Recht Wohl - Eberhard Wachter/Teresa Stich-Randall
7. Act Two: Jetzt Aber Kommt Mein Herr Zukunftiger - Teresa Stich-Randall/Eberhard Wachter/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig
8. Act Two: Belieben Jetzt VVielleicht... Ist Ein Alter Tokaier - Teresa Stich-Randall/Eberhard Wachter/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig
9. Act Two: Mocht' Wissen, Was Ihm Dunkt Von Mir Und Ihm - Teresa Stich-Randall/Eberhard Wachter/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig
10. Act Two: Wird Sie Das Mannsbild Da Heiraten - Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig/Teresa Stich-Randall/Eberhard Wachter/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger
11. Act Two: Mit Ihren Augen Voll Tranen - Christa Ludwig/Teresa Stich-Randall
12. Act Two: Herr Baron Von Lerchenau! - Kerstin Meyer/Paul Kuen/Otto Edelmann/Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig
13. Act Two: Ich Hoff', Er Kommt Vielmehr Jetzt Mit Mir Hinters Haus - Christa Ludwig/Otto Edelmann/Teresa Stich-Randall/Kerstin Meyer/Eberhard Wachter
14. Act Two: Er Muss Mich Pardonieren - Christa Ludwig/Eberhard Wachter/Teresa Stich-Randall
15. Act Two: Heirat' Den Herrn Dort Nicht Lebendig Und Nicht Tot! - Teresa Stich-Randall/Eberhard Wachter/Christa Ludwig/Ljuba Welitsch
16. Act Two: Da Lieg' Ich! - Otto Edelmann
17. Act Two: Und Doch, Muss Lachen, Wie Sich So Ein Luder - Otto Edelmann
18. Act Two: Ohne Mich, Ohne Mich Jeder Tag Dir Zu Bang - Otto Edelmann/Kerstin Meyer
19. Act Two: Ganz Zu Befehl, Herr Kavalier - Otto Edelmann/Kerstin Meyer

Disc 3:

1. Act Three: Intro - Philharmonia Orch/Herbert Von Karajan
2. Act Three: Pantomime - Philharmonia Orch/Herbert Von Karajan
3. Act Three: Hab'n Euer Gnaden Noch Witre Befehle? - Karl Friedrich/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger/Eberhard Wachter/Franz Bierbach
4. Act Three: Nein, Nein, Nein, Nein! I Trink' Kein Wein - Christa Ludwig/Otto Edelmann
5. Act Three: Die Schone Musi! - Christa Ludwig/Otto Edelmann
6. Act Three: Macht Sie Der Wein Leicht Immer So? - Otto Edelmann
7. Act Three: Er Ist Es! Es Ist Mein Mann! - Kerstin Meyer/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig/Karl Friedrich/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger...
8. Act Three: Halt! Keiner Ruhrt Sich! - Franz Bierbach/Paul Kuen/Christa Ludwig/Otto Edelmann/Karl Friedrich
9. Act Three: Zur Stelle! Was Wird Von Mir Gewunscht? - Eberhard Wachter/Otto Edelmann/Franz Bierbach
10. Act Three: Die Braut! Oh Was Fur Ein Skandal! - Children's Chor From Loughton High School For Girls And Bancroft's School/Philharmonia Cho...
11. Act Three: Sind Desto Eher Im Klaren! - Otto Edelmann/Fraz Bierbach/Christa Ludwig/Karl Friedrich
12. Act Three: Bin Glucklich Uber Massen - Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig/Franz Bierbach/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Teresa Stich-Randall
13. Act Three: Er Sieht, Herr Kommissar, Das Ganze War Halt Eine Farce - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Franz Bierbach/Teresa Stich-Randall/Otto Edelmann/Christa Ludwig
14. Act Three: Bin Von So Viel Finesse Charmiert - Otto Edelmann/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Teresa Stich-Randall
15. Act Three: Leupold, Wir Geh'n! - Otto Edelmann/Kerstin Meyer/Erich Majkut/Gerhard Unger/Eberhard Wachter/Franz Bierbach
16. Act Three: Mein Gott, Es War Nicht Mehr Als Eine Farce - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
17. Act Three: Heut Oder Morgen Oder Den Ubernachsten Tag - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
18. Act Three: So Schnell Hat Sie Ihn Gar So Lieb? - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
19. Act Three: Marie Theres'!... Hab' Mir's Gelobt - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
20. Act Three: Ist Ein Traum, Kann Nicht Wirklich Sein... Spur' Nur Dich Allein - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig
21. Act Three: Sind Halt Aso, Die Jungen Leut'! - Eberhard Wachter/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
22. Act Three: Ist Ein Traum, Kann Nicht Wirklich Sein... Spur' Nur Dich Allein - Teresa Stich-Randall/Christa Ludwig

Rating: - Among The Better
This is surely among the better Rosenkavalier recordings. In its day it had no equal. Can Christa Ludwig ever do wrong? I don't think so. She is sublime as is Karajan. A young Nicolai Gedda is a treat. My problem is Stitch-Randall with that annoying vibrato.
Schwarzkopf herself I find a bit too white and colorless. This great opera is widely recorded try them all. The most memorable performances I've seen were live from New York to Vienna.

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Rating: - Karajan's usual undramatic Strauss approach
This was my first recording of this magnificent opera and it left me cold. It may be that I never was much of a fan of either Elizabeth Schwarzkopf or Otto Edelmann. Now that I have many more recordings, all of which is better than this one IMO, I know why I didn't like it. It is mainly because of Karajan's approach to Strauss in general and Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin.
Karajan's approach to this exceptionally lyrical opera is so undramatic and overglossing. It has none of the beauty and spark of Böhm or Kleiber (both Erich and Carlos). Even the great 1936 Busch performance, in bad sound quality, has more beauty and spark than this. I see the same in his Ariadne. Several times in the opera is dramatically important musical devices simply ignored by Karajan. In almost all other recordings I feel a sence of awe in the Octavian/Sophie duet in the beginning of act 2. In this recording there is nothing awe-inspiring at all.
Schwarzkopf is nothing like Maria Reining (in either the studio Erich Kleiber set or in Clemens Krauss' Salzburg performance). Schwarzkopf is too much like Schwarzkopf and not the Marschallin. I get no sense of drama from her.
I also have a problem with Otto Edelmann. I miss the deep bass of Ludwig Weber (on the Kleiber set), Kurt Bohme (on Bohm's set) or Alexander Kipnis (in the Busch performance).
Christa Ludwig is one of very favorite mezzo sopranos, but I think she sounds much too feminine to be Octavian. Probably the best Octavian I have heard is Sena Jurinac (on the Kleiber set). Irmgard Seefried (on Bohm's set) is also really great. None of them are very feminine in their portrayl of the young Count. Ludwig sings really well, but I have never felt she is musically and dramatically right for the part because of her very feminine voice.
The rest of the cast is really good
The sound is good for early stereo, but there are times when the sound is a little muffled. The documentation is really great.

To close I have to say that Bohm's magnificent recording with Schech, Seefried and Bohme is a clear first choice if you have to have a stereo recording.
If stereo isn't important, then there is basically no better studio recording than the famous Erich Kleiber set from Decca with Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac and Ludwig Weber.

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Rating: - Another array of beautiful music............
Karajan's 1956 version, one of the greatest of all opera recordings, is in a class of its own, with the patrician refinement of Karajan's spacious reading combining with an emotional intensity that he remains a supreme interpreter. Matching that achievement is the incomparable portrait of the Marschallin from Schwarzkopf, bringing out detail as no one else can, yet equally presenting the breadth and richness of the character, a woman still young and attractive. Christa Ludwig with her firm, clear mezzo tone makes an ideal, ardent Octavian and Teresa Stich-Randall a radiant Sophie, with Otto Edelmann a winningly characterful Ochs, who yet sings every note clearly. This has now rightly been reissued, at mid-price, as one of EMI's `Great Recordings of the Century,' with sound further enhanced.

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Rating: - Waltz me around again
OK, Der Rosenkavalier opera is a smidgeon kinky. But the music is ethereal. One of the most hauntingly beautiful waltzes ever written. This music was sung (with words by Hollywood lyricist Earl Brent) by the fetching Jeanette Mac Donald in the movie "Three Daring Daughters."

Listen to the waltz music a few times and you can't get it out of your head. Nor do you want to.

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Rating: - Discovering Strauss
I've just started listening to Strauss's Operas. I found "Elektra" exhausting but breathtaking. This work is definitely more lyrical and less loud, took some getting used to after Elektra, I half expected a huge orchestra to take over and blast everyone offstage but that never happened.
I find some of the "comedy" a little tedious but parts of it are exquisite.
I love Schwarzkopf's rendition of the " monologue", she conveys so much emotion and brings this character to life perfectly. Brava!!
And I think I've listened to "Presentation...Rose" about a 1000 times already. Ear candy if there ever was.
I think the story is intriguing and addictive.
Love Christa Ludwig's Octavion, wow! (I like von Otter too)