Strauss, R - Es gibt ein Reich (from Ariadne auf Naxos)
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss
RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Davidsen is no ordinary singer. Throughout the whole album one marvels at the voice, its easy grandeur and sheer size, its steely focus and security… The timbre has a default cool beauty but... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2019
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Record Review, 8th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Special offer. R. Strauss: 3 Hymns & Opera arias
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Okko Kamu
The main attraction of the programme is the Drei Hymnen, which do not come round in recordings very often...As each of her three Straussian heroines, she embodies a very touching, human vulnerability. —
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Lisa Della Casa sings Richard Strauss
Lisa Della Casa (soprano), with Rudolf Schock, Lisa Otto, Nada Puttar & Leonore Kirchstein, with George London
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Alberto Erede, Georg Solti
Whichever are your preferred Four Last Songs, this performance will equal them. The excerpts from Arabella and Ariadne are just as impressive. —
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Leonie Rysanek
Leonie Rysanek (soprano), George London, Lotte Rysanek, Christa Ludwig (Octavian) & Hilda de Groote (Sophie)
Josef Krips & Karl Böhm
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Strauss - Four Last Songs
Recorded at the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, June, 1953
Lisa della Casa (soprano), Franz Bierbach (Graf), Hilde Gueden (Zdenka), Alfred Poell (Mandryka)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Heinrich Hollreiser, Rudolf Moralt
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After giving choice recitals of Verdi and Wagner, Varady turned her attention to Strauss, and once again the results are for the most part rewarding.
The final scene of Salome, under the watchful... — -
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The voice is weighty, muscular and so dark-hued as to be almost contralto-like in timbre; the characterisation is never less than forthright...There is no doubting Netrebko’s musical commitment,... —
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Elisabeth-Maria Wachutka - Arias
Elisabeth-Maria Wachutka (soprano)
Württenbergische Philharmonie, Roberto Paternostro
