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Special offer. Strauss - Four Last Songs
Recorded at the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, June, 1953
Lisa della Casa (soprano), Franz Bierbach (Graf), Hilde Gueden (Zdenka), Alfred Poell (Mandryka)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Heinrich Hollreiser, Rudolf Moralt
Special offer. Strauss - Four Last Songs
Recorded at the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, June, 1953
Lisa della Casa (soprano), Franz Bierbach (Graf), Hilde Gueden (Zdenka), Alfred Poell (Mandryka)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Heinrich Hollreiser, Rudolf Moralt
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Producer and Audio-Restoration engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn.
Acclaimed as one of her generation’s finest interpreters of Richard Strauss (the composer himself identified her as his ideal Arabella), the Swiss soprano Lisa della Casa was blessed with a seemingly effortless, shimmeringly beautiful voice as well as an innate sense of musical style.
In the words of the distinguished critic John Steane: ‘Della Casa remains one of the best of all sopranos in Richard Strauss. Her voice has that touch of spring and silver that Strauss loved and wrote for; her tone will float and soar’.
These vivid recordings are essential for every collection.
Contents and tracklist
- Lisa della Casa, Franz Bierbach
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Heinrich Hollreiser
- Lisa della Casa, Alfred Poell
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Rudolf Moralt