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Special offer. Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 3
Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
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... — More…
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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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Miraculous longbreathed phrases in the slower winter and wood meditations, big near-heroic outbursts and a unique way with inward reflection all mark out the highest artistry. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2021
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Strauss: Orchestral Songs, Vol. 2
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Strauss - Four Last Songs & Orchestral Songs
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell
...sung with poise and passion by the 50-year-old Schwarzkopf...this is for many the incomparabe recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs. — More…
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Glenn Gould: The Schwarzkopf Tapes
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) & Glenn Gould (piano)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann
Not a collaboration, more a collision. Schwarzkopf’s fruity soprano fights to a draw against Gould’s stern minimalism...The stylistic clash — both frightful and fascinating — is immediately... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2012
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Renée Fleming's first recording of the Last Songs, made in 1996 (on RCA), was distinctly mixed. Here Christian Thielemann is a much more natural Straussian, powerful and luxuriant, and Fleming's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Lott was still at her peak when these recordings were made in 2002, and has a background of great affinity with the Strauss muse...Her voice and phrasing are still at their glorious finest,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs & Orchestral Songs
2011 Remaster
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/George Szell/Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/London Symphony Orchestra/George Szell
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), George Szell
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