"This is the coming man! - exclaimed one eminent critic on the opening night of 'Wiener Frauen' (November 1902), and never was a truer word spoken. By any standards, 'Wiener Frauen' is a sparkling debut ... You get the sense of an ensemble cast giving a real theatrical performance ... Musically, its heart is very much in the right place. Marius Burkert, conducting, is an old hand in this repertoire, and the whole score benefits from his unforced, dancelike rhythmic bounce ... The cast, pretty much uniformly, give bright, musicianly performances ... Lehár might not be the coming man any more but this recording deserves to make new friends for this delightfully assured first outing in a genre that he was destined to transform"