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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... — More…
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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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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. 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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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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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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Gundula Janowitz - The Last Recital (In Memoriam Maria Callas)
Recorded Live at the Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens, Greece, 16 September, 1999
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)
[Janowitz] is in remarkably fresh voice throughout. There’s a certain loss of bloom, inevitably, and an occasional brittleness of intonation, but the unique sound is unmistakable, the delivery... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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The result is studded with performances heroic and tender. Kaufmann shows his outstanding dynamic and expressive range, from a close-miked, intimate whisper to gloriously powerful, full-throttle... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th September 2020
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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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