 The salient features of Herbert von Karajan's interpretation were its "meticulous attention to changing sonorities" and its muscularity as a piece of music drama.An opera usually represented almost as though it were a dream was instead made into a story of ""real" characters with "real" emotions", "a bigger, stronger, more varied music" than anyone had discovered in the score before.EMI's production team had favoured strings over woodwinds and voices but not culpably so, and had achieved an audio quality commendable for "its clarity, its warmth and beauty of sound and its exceedingly wide dynamic range".