Browse: Richard Strauss Complete Songs (series)

As well as showing her ability to weave around a wide-ranging phrase, apparent in the first song on the disc, 'Einerlei', and incorporating a useful chest voice, she shows a wicked penchant for... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Not just for Salome did Strauss demand several voices in one: here he ranges from the ditzy skitterings of the Ophelia Songs via the full-on operatic scena that is the Schwarzkopf favourite Blindenklage... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Duffy's is a light, bright soprano with a stylish sense of phrasing and some rapturous top Bs in her armoury...Two stand out: the harmonically wayward 'Junghexenlied', where Duffy has the right... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

the pleasures are manifold. Even ardent Straussians won't know many of the songs in this mix of juvenilia...[Hughes] is a delight, pure lyric-soprano transparency for the often folksy simplicity... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pianist and presiding spirit Roger Vignoles takes us on a select chronological jaunt, making sure Brewer boldly goes to the heart of the bigger numbers where lesser voices would fear to tread.... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Andrew Kennedy is an eager, bright-eyed lover: the bloom and the tenderness of the middle range of his voice, in particular, knows just how to bring a luxuriant Straussian intimacy to a song... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Maltman and Vignoles strike the right note of hard-won simplicity for Goethe's 'Gefunden' and Heine's 'Mit deinen blauen Augen'. Miles then signs in with the wonderful night-boat meditation of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…