There is a large gap in Klemperer's Strauss biography- no operas excepting Salome's Tanz here and a concentration upon relativelyearly works. No Heldebleben, Zarathustra, Don Quixote or Alpine Symphony. What remained for Klemperer is excellent, whichreasonable tempi and utmost clarity. He excepted Strauss's memorial to a devastated Germany, Metamorphosen, with its motiffrom the Eroica Funeral March, but was ambivalent about Strauss's career driven political sympathies and alliances (discussed mostin Part II of Peter Heyworth's Klemperer biography). Like the other works on this disc, it is deeply felt and dramatized expertly. Salome'sDance is suitably erotic and frightening, Don Juan is dashing. Klemperer was quite familiar with erotic entanglements, many causedby his bi-polar affliction, and a self styled "immoralist" compared to Bruno Walter. Best of this disc, I think, is "Death and Transfiguration"with the former outstripping the latter, I think. DT and DJ peers include Szell/Sony, Haitink/Philips, Tennstedt/EMI, Reiner/RCA and Decca.