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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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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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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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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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Strauss R: Four Last Songs
Recommendedand other works
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
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Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
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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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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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Heimliche Aufforderung: Lieder by Richard Strauss
RecommendedChristiane Karg (soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano), Felix Klieser (horn)
The Bavarian soprano is a delectably light, idiomatic Straussian, and the covered, pearly underside of her voice is the perfect instrument with which to recreate the secret moments and intimacy... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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It is a measure of her gifts that Chen Reiss takes all these composers in her stride. That vocal stride is impressive: sustained lyric tone that is only rarely forced...Charles Spencer is as... — More…
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R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin, George Szell
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