US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
-
Strauss’s revision (in 1883) may be masterly, but his first try is impressive. In this persuasive performance by Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem, the early work bursts into irrepressible life…There... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Chamber Choice
-
Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
-
-
Special offer. Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 2
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
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…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
-
-
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…
Awards:
-
Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Solo Vocal
-
-
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... — More…
Awards:
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Lieder)
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Emma Bell sings Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter & Joseph Marx
Emma Bell (soprano), Andrew West (piano)
-
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…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
-
-
This sparkling Kyrgyzstan-born light-lyric soprano recently scored a palpable hit as Sophie in the Bavarian State Opera’s live-streamed Der Rosenkavalier, and that same combination of crystalline... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
-
-
Purchase product
CD
$12.25 -
Christa Ludwig - Lieder Recital
Directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) & Charles Spencer (piano), Directed by Claus Viller
Filmed in Athens in 1994, this is one of the great German mezzo's final Lieder recitals. With her voice still in fine fettle and her interpretative powers undiminished, it's an impressive token... — More…
-
Dame Margaret Price & Geoffrey Parsons
Songs by Schubert, Mahler & R.Strauss
Dame Margaret Price (soprano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
The fusion of dark and light, melancholy and joy, makes her Mahler particularly special. Here, the force of sadness is miraculously integrated with the high beauty of the voice… Geoffrey Parsons…answers... — More…
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide
