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Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 15th January 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Special offer. Grieg - Songs
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Everything about this disc draws you in. Von Otter’s words have such intention and her sound is so fresh and direct – so finely shaded, so refined, yet somehow so close to speech —
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Solo vocal
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Special offer. Diamonds in the Snow
RecommendedScandinavian Songs by Grieg and Sibelius
Barbara Bonney & Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Vocal
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Special offer. Lines Written During a Sleepless Night
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Solo vocal
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Special offer. Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
RecommendedRenée Fleming (soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano)
The repertoire plays to Fleming’s vocal strengths. While her voice is not as terrifically full as it once was, there remains an exquisite beauty to the sound and a sense of total technical ease.... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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There can never be too many recordings of Grieg's masterpiece, Haugtussa ('The Mountain Maid')… In the mezzo-soprano of Katarina Karnéus, Haugtussa becomes a darkly erotic tale… —
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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Piano Concerto Fragments in B minor
Carl Petersson (piano)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kerry Stratton
Pianist Carl Petersson plays with conviction throughout, as he does the concluding Evju-Grief song transcriptions. —
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Special offer. Jussi Björling Collection, Vol. 5
Lieder and Songs 1939-1952
Jussi Björling (tenor), Harry Ebert / Friedrich Schauwecker (piano)
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The Richard Tauber Collection, Vol. 27: A Song Recital
Richard Tauber (tenor), Percy Kahn (piano)
Henry Geehl
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