Hans Pfitzner's "musical legend" may still be seen and heard far more often in Germany and Austria than anywhere else in the world, but it is now very respectably represented on disc. The classic 1970s recording, with Nicolai Gedda and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau heading the cast and Rafael Kubelik conducting, is currently available from Brilliant Opera at a bargain price, so the new Oehms version, costing almost three times as much, would have to be pretty special to compete with it. It's the latest in Oehms' series of recordings from performances at the Frankfurt Opera – in this case, a 2010 revival of a production by Harry Kupfer. The cast is decent, if not spectacular. Peter Bronder is reliable in the title role, and Wolfgang Koch is a slightly stolid Borromoeo; Kirill Petrenko's conducting sometimes lacks the patient spaciousness the the work really needs. The new set does score over Brilliant's reissue by including a full libretto and – a step forward for Oehms – there's actually an English translation of it, too.