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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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Strauss R: Four Last Songs
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Felicity Lott (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
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Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
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Parton’s sound is agreeably brilliant, bright, open and high-lying...Lepper often breathes magic into less inspired compositions. Some of these composers are famous for over-egging, but this... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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R. Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
What wins this disc the five stars are the facts that Damrau, singing in her native German, is poised ideally between dreamy haze and Schwarzkopfian fussiness...her hallowed pianissimos allow... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th January 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Fans of the Hallé will be delighted with Mark Elder's intense but spacious accounts of the tone poems here… Schwanewilms often begins with lines of instrumental purity, beautifully attuned... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Through Life and Love
Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Alder can do it all, and there are already plenty of colours in the voice. — More…
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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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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano. Surprisingly, this is her solo recital debut on disc. The bouquet... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Richard Strauss: Tag und Nacht
Vier Letzte Lieder & Songs With Piano
Kateřina Kněžíková (soprano), Jakub Hrůša (piano)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
on the whole it’s the late work with orchestra that is the most successful. Kněžíková and Hrůša present fresh, unmannered and beautifully airy performances. The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra provide... — More…
