Review: Johann Strauss, Jr. For Normal People

Collections of Viennese light music--Lanner, the Strauss family, and their colleagues--are easy to find, but they don't get better or smarter than this 12-CD RCA box conducted by the last great avatar of the Viennese style, Robert Stolz (1880-1975). At super-budget price, this collection takes you through the entire 19th and 20th centuries, beginning with Joseph Lanner and ending with Stolz himself. It's really got everything you'll ever need--and then some.