I've asked this once ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

IIRC, it's not so long since Ligeti's Volumina was billed as being performed by Freddie Mercury...

Yes - that was remarkable, wasn't it!

[ahinton]

... and as for the possibilties with the Franck Sonata ...

You make me feel so young.
You make me feel like string has strung.
as in?

Anyway, to return to the topic (sort of!), the prospect of a Strauss being associated with a Giovanni Battista when one thinks of the IS-like beheading that might befall the latter before the result thereof is served up on a silver platter is arguably somewhat worrying...

Changing the subject (or at least its emphasis), I do recall years ago noting that Kaiserwalzer might well merit being renamed Führerwalzer on the grounds that the goose-step and the Viennese lilt are no so far removed from one another...