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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Rene Kollo sings Wagner and Strauss
Expressiveness and intelligent acting: For Herbert von Karajan he was the ideal Wagner singer. But René Kollo didn’t only shine as a heroic tenor. He also possessed immense versatility, reaching a large audience both as an expressive actor on the opera stage, and with his concert and television appearances and in his roles in operetta films. And for all these different activities, he never forsook his credibility as a “serious” singer. This Electrola recital with Kollo features Christian Thielemann on the rostrum – still at the outset of his career in 1992, but in the meantime one of the leading conductors of Wagner and Strauss. | 
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| |  | Strauss - Four Last Songs
The dream team: Renee Fleming and Christian Thielemann, today's foremost interpreters of Richard Strauss, in a brand new recording of the Four Last Songs, plus other arias and songs by R. Strauss. Renee Fleming, the world's leading lyric soprano, records the exquisitely beautiful Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss in a brand new recording. Fleming recorded these songs once before, ten years ago before she had ever sung them live. Since then, these enduringly popular showcases for the soprano voice have become signature pieces for Fleming and a regular and much-loved part of her concert repertoire. With years of experience of live performances behind her, Fleming is ready now to revisit these works, bringing more insight, fresh interpretations and greater maturity. She is conducted by Christian Thielemann, a renowned interpreter of Strauss. The disc also includes other Strauss scenes from his operas Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Agyptische Helena as well as Richard Strauss's songs Freundliche Vision, Verfuehrung, Winterweihe and Zueignung, several of which Fleming has sung live to critical acclaim. “[Fleming's] voice is perfectly suited to [these 'magical late songs'] demands, less of range than of tender, expressive feeling…a must for more than merely Straussians” Anthony Holden, The Observer, 7th September 2008 “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 voice has gained in distinctiveness and diction, to splendidly dramatic effect, often with a real 'float' at the top.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 **** “As Fleming explains in a note, the Four Last Songs has become the work that she has performed most often. Throughout the four songs, Fleming not only lavishes every resource of tonal richness at her command, but she seems to be urging all sorts of extra details from the text. The sound is stupendous, Fleming's voice complemented by the Munich Orchestra, with Thielemann bringing out every detail in Strauss's nostalgic orchestration.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 “[Thielemann] gives her voice space to soar and swoop in its illimitable fashion, but refuses to indulge her much-discussed habit of dropping consonants half the time...this is a strikingly fretful interpretation that contemplates mortality with profound unease as well as resignation...Elsewhere, she gives a ravishing account of Verführung and the finest performance of Winterweihe I can think of.” The Guardian, 10th October 2008 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
Strauss, R: | Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1 Des Dichters Abendgang, Op. 47 No. 2 Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1 Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Ich trage meine Minne, Op. 32 No. 1 Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 Verfuehrung Op. 33 No. 1 Waldseligkeit, Op. 49 No. 1 Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1 |
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| |  | Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs - Orchestral Songs
Strauss had a lifelong affair with the soprano voice, and many of his songs were written with his (reputedly shrewish) wife Pauline's voice in mind. This collection brings together five songs performed with crystalline purity by Christine Schaefer as well as some more dramatic settings performed by Karita Mattila, concluding with Mattila's reading of the immortal Four Last Songs (Vier Letzte Lieder). | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Seduction - Songs by Richard Strauss
Strauss, R: | Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Allerseelen, Op. 10 No. 8 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1 Ich trage meine Minne, Op. 32 No. 1 Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3 Verfuehrung Op. 33 No. 1 Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1 Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Wiegenlied, Op. 41 No. 1 Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1 Waldseligkeit, Op. 49 No. 1 Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland Op. 56 No. 6 Morgen mittag um elf! (from Capriccio) Capriccio: Intermezzo (Moonlight Music) Waltz Sequence No. 2 (from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59) |
A deluxe edition re-mastered and remixed for SACD surround sound from the original acclaimed recording made in 1999. CD received glowing reviews and is in the Gramophone Best CDs and DVDs Yearbook. Steve Davislim is a highly sought after Australian tenor based in Vienna who has established a stellar international career working with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors in Europe, the USA and Australia. Davislim’s voice is full of colour and warmth and informed in every note by an all too rare combination of intelligence and imagination: “it’s almost enough to make you believe in God” St Petersburg Times. Recording debut of Australian-born Simone Young, recognised as one of the leading conductors of her generation and Music Director of Hamburg State Opera. First of a series of five CDs that Steve Davislim is making with Melba, including Schubert’s song-cycle Winterreise and the world premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’ 1-act opera Hélène. CD notes by distinguished Strauss biographer Michael Kennedy. Digipak with picture disc and 30-page colour booklet with essay and aria translations. “An outstanding recital by an excellent young tenor singing superb Strauss… [Davislim] is worth being spoken of in the same breath as his notable predecessors – Peter Anders and Fritz Wunderlich – praise can hardly be higher than that.” Gramophone
“The years drop off Richard Strauss... in this new disc of his orchestrated songs... [Davislim’s] lithe, rhythmically and verbally alert tenor has the red blood surging from the start...” BBC Music Magazine (on Original CD Release) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Richard Strauss: Orchestral Works
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| |  | Evelyn Lear & Thomas Stewart sing Wagner & Strauss
“Recommended to all fans of this husband-wife duo” American Record Guide | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Richard Strauss - The Complete Orchestral Songs
Strauss, R: | Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Allerseelen, Op. 10 No. 8 Heimkehr, Op. 15 No. 5 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1 Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1 Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3 Verfuehrung Op. 33 No. 1 Gesang der Apollopriesterin Op. 33 No. 2 Hymne Op. 34 No. 2 Pilgers Morgenlied, Op. 33 Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1 Ich liebe dich Op. 37 No. 2 Meinem Kinde, Op. 37 No. 3 Mein Auge Op. 37 No. 4 Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Der Arbeitsmann, Op. 39, No. 3 Wiegenlied, Op. 41 No. 1 Winterliebe Op. 48 No. 5 Waldseligkeit, Op. 49 No. 1 Das Tal, Op. 51 Der Einsame, Op. 51 Frühlingsfeier Op. 56 No. 5 Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland Op. 56 No. 6 Die Nacht, Op. 10 No. 3 Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden, Op. 68 No. 2 Säusle, Liebe Myrte, Op. 68 No. 3 Als mir dein Lied erklang, Op. 68 No. 4 Amor, Op. 68 No. 5 Lied der Frauen, Op. 68 Das Bächlein, Op. 88 No. 1 Drei Hymnen Op. 71 Four Last Songs Muttertändelei, Op. 43 No. 2 Notturno, Op. 44 No. 1 Nächtlicher Gang, Op. 44 No. 2 World premiere recording Des Dichters Abendgang, Op. 47 No. 2 Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1 |
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