Download, Strauss, R (composer)
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 8
RecommendedRoger Vignoles (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Evans weaves a special magic in the dying falls, with magnificent breath control at the end of 'September'. Gold, though, goes to Nicky Spence and Roger Vignoles, making a remarkable statement... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Richard Strauss - Vier letzte Lieder and Other Lieder
RecommendedJessye Norman (soprano)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur
[Norman is] grand, impassioned, noble, dignified, unmannered in this unforgettable interpretation —
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Solo vocal
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Chamber
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Clair-Obscur
RecommendedStrauss - Berg - Zemlinsky
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier
Shunning the velvety voluptuousness of a Jessye Norman or the wide-eyed textual probing of a Schwarzkopf, she brings a freshness of perspective that encourages the reconsideration of cherished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Special offer. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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She scales back her voice in all the right places...And when she doesn't scale back? The full-voiced climax to 'Zueignung' gives a ringing emphasis to the song's profound gratitude. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart & Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Mathieu Pordoy (piano)
Devieilhe decorates Strauss’s ‘Amor’ with diamond bright coloratura and spins a seamless legato throughout. Yet this is preeminently a partnership between pianist and singer. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss
RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Davidsen is no ordinary singer. Throughout the whole album one marvels at the voice, its easy grandeur and sheer size, its steely focus and security… The timbre has a default cool beauty but... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2019
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Record Review, 8th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. No doubt the composer himself, with his love of the soprano voice, would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing. He might also... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Disc of the Month
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