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Her voice reminds me now of Birgit Nilsson’s at the same stage, an Elsa and Sieglinde who is a Brünnhilde in waiting, with the same thrilling edge to her top register, though she isn’t lacking... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 26th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: 4851507
Label: Decca
Length: 63 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

April 2021

Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week

2nd April 2021
BBC Music Magazine

June 2021

Opera Choice
Gramophone Awards

2021

Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Vocal

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Beethoven: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (from Fidelio)

Work length7:22

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Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-08-01
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65

Work length12:45

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Ed. Herttrich
Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-08-01
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Recitativo. Allegro con brio

Track length3:20

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Aria. Adagio

Track length4:52

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Allegro assai 'Ah crudel! crudel!'

Track length4:33

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Cherubini: Dei tuoi figli la madre tu vedi (from Medee)

Work length4:17

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Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-08-02
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Mascagni: Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana)

Work length6:49

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Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-10-15
Recording Venue: Watford Colosseum

Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)

Work length5:53

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Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-10-15
Recording Venue: Watford Colosseum

Verdi: Ave Maria (from Otello)

Work length5:39

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Lise Davidsen (soprano), Rosalind Plowright (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-08-02
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (5)

Work length20:41

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Lise Davidsen (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder
Recorded: 2020-08-04
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

1. Der Engel (Orch. Mottl)

Track length3:09

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2. Stehe still! (Orch. Mottl)

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3. Im Treibhaus (Orch. Mottl)

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4. Schmerzen (Orch. Mottl)

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5. Träume (Orch. Wagner)

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Recording of the Week, Lise Davidsen in Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi

2nd April 2021

The powerhouse Norwegian soprano is in expansive, radiant voice for Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder and arias from Fidelio, Otello, La forza del destino, Medea, and Cavalleria rusticana with Sir Mark Elder and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her second album explodes from the speakers with Leonore’s aria from Fidelio, the role which bowled over critics in March 2020: “She will surely be the outstanding Leonore of the next generation.” ★★★★ Financial Times. Presenting some of the great operatic heroines from the German and Italian repertoire: Verdi’s Leonora from La forza del destino, Cherubini’s Medea, and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana further demonstrating her versatility. Featuring Wagner’s five Wesendonck Lieder which has become a signature piece for Lise and which affords us a glimpse of her future Isolde. Recorded in lockdown with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the doyen of British opera conductors, Sir Mark Elder.

“It’s a one-in-a-million voice.” Antonio Pappano

“Voices like hers come round once in a generation.” – ★★★★ Financial Times

“The voice of the century.” – ZDF Heute Journal

“A God-given instrument, used with sensitive artistry. To hear it alone is worth the price of any ticket.” ★★★★ The Daily Telegraph

“A once-in-a-generation-voice” – Opera Magazine

“One of the greatest vocal talents to have emerged in recent years, if not decades.” – Gramophone

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June 2021

Her voice reminds me now of Birgit Nilsson’s at the same stage, an Elsa and Sieglinde who is a Brünnhilde in waiting, with the same thrilling edge to her top register, though she isn’t lacking in her lower notes either. As the Ave Maria from Verdi’s Otello makes clear, she can also scale her voice down.

April 2021

Another fine album from an artist who, quite simply, is one of the greatest voices to be heard today.

May 2021

The Wagner sounds properly calm and contemplative. But what’s interesting here is her success with ‘Voi lo sapete’ from Cavalleria rusticana and ‘Pace, pace’ from La forza del destino. Davidsen has sung French, Russian and Czech roles, and in this Italian repertory she brings vocal richness and idiomatic confidence to the music.

2nd April 2021

Beethoven’s notoriously unforgiving two-octave leaps and breath-sapping long phrases seemingly posing no problem at all for Davidsen’s formidable lung-capacity and seamlessly-integrated instrument..Elder’s tempi are often luxuriously spacious, capitalising on his soloist’s rock-steady breath-control, and he clearly relishes being in a position to let the brass entirely off the leash when the opportunity presents itself – Davidsen in full cry is more than a match for Wagner’s thickest scoring.

11th April 2021

There is so much to enjoy in the young Norwegian soprano’s singing, I am reluctant not to join in the blanket adulation of a new artist promoted by her record company as a “voice of the century”..the glorious top of the voice shines in an exquisitely graded messa di voce in Pace, pace from Verdi’s La forza del destino.

1st April 2021

Davidsen’s soprano has a brighter gleam and greater expansiveness than that of any other singer to have emerged on to the opera scene in the last decade. She’s not a singer to signpost every moodswing; listen closely, though, and her attention to detail and to the colour of her sound is telling.

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