"Editor's choice: The Vienna State Opera's centenary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten last year was inevitably one of the hottest tickets of the Straussian calendar. In the event, Vincent Huguet's production was a disappointment. Not so Christian Thielemann's conducting of a State Opera Orchestra on breathtaking form ... Camilla Nylund is probably today's reigning Empress ... Nina Stemme is predictably fine as the Dyer's Wife, too ... The chief glory, however, is undoubtedly the conducting and playing ... This is essential listening for anyone interested in this remarkable work".