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Davidsen’s soprano sounds fresh, gleaming and direct, her top-most notes silvery. She knows how to ensure nothing gets overblown – and how to get so close to the edge that the effect is thrilling,... —
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This is passionate singing, sexy even – not for nothing has the German been described as resembling a flamenco artist. The best-known songs here are delivered with electrifying ease, and there... —
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Solo Vocal
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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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Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder & Lieder
Diana Damrau (soprano), Helmut Deutsch (piano), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The German soprano’s virtues are well in evidence. There’s no doubting the integrity and intelligence of her performances, and there’s much to admire in her tidy, restrained way with the Four... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Lieder)
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Special offer. Stimme der Sehnsucht
Lieder by Pfitzner, Strauss & Mahler
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano) & Joseph Breinl (piano)
Stotijn's latest well-earned recital disc takes the imaginative high ground right at the start...In the booklet-notes, Stotijn eloquently explains why they travelled to Schiermonnikoog (or 'Grey... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Alder can do it all, and there are already plenty of colours in the voice. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The tenor’s intelligence and his experience as a lieder singer and Mozart interpreter bring their own rewards...I can’t really see the essentially lyric character of Behle’s voice changing much,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Heimliche Aufforderung: Lieder by Richard Strauss
RecommendedChristiane Karg (soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano), Felix Klieser (horn)
The Bavarian soprano is a delectably light, idiomatic Straussian, and the covered, pearly underside of her voice is the perfect instrument with which to recreate the secret moments and intimacy... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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