Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 8

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Evans weaves a special magic in the dying falls, with magnificent breath control at the end of 'September'. Gold, though, goes to Nicky Spence and Roger Vignoles, making a remarkable statement... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2017
Catalogue No: CDA68185
Label: Hyperion
Series: Richard Strauss Complete Songs
Length: 64 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

4th August 2017
BBC Music Magazine

October 2017

Choral & Song Choice
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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Vier Lieder Op. 27

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

II. Cäcilie

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Lieder (3), Op. 31

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

II. Wenn …

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Fünf Lieder, Op. 41

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

IV. Bruder Liederlich

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Gesange (3), Op. 43

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

I. An Sie

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III. Die Ulme zu Hirsau

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Strauss, R: Fünf Gedichte, Op. 46

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

I. Ein Obdach gegen Sturm und Regen

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II. Gestern war ich Atlas

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III. Die sieben Siegel

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IV. Morgenrot

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V. Ich sehe wie in einem Spiegel

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Lieder (8), Op. 49, TrV 204

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

V. Sie wissen’s nicht

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VI. Junggesellenschwur

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Lieder der Ophelia, Op. 67

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

IV. Wer wird von der Welt verlangen

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V. Hab’ ich euch denn je geraten

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VI. Wanderers Gemütsruhe

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Fünf kleine Lieder, Op. 69

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

II. Der Pokal

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Strauss, R: Vier letzte Lieder

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Rebecca Evans (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

I. Frühling

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II. September

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III. Beim Schlafengehn

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IV. Im Abendrot

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Recording of the Week, Songs by Richard Strauss, plus the Oboe Concerto and works for wind ensemble

4th August 2017

James listens to a wealth of vocal and instrumental works by Richard Strauss - with Nicky Spence, Rebecca Evans, Alexi Ogrintchouk and others.

Roger Vignoles astutely notes that Strauss’s songs cannot be played ‘without a vivid sense of the orchestral colours and textures that they imply’, so how better to conclude our series of the complete songs than with the piano-accompanied versions of the Vier letzte Lieder? These wondrous valedictions are the summation of a great composer’s love affair with the voice, written at the very end of a long creative life.

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October 2017

Evans weaves a special magic in the dying falls, with magnificent breath control at the end of 'September'. Gold, though, goes to Nicky Spence and Roger Vignoles, making a remarkable statement of intent in the raptuorous 'Cacilie', with a special care with text and phrase and an ardour verging on the heroic...There’s both sensitivity and fearlessness in Spence’s upper register; three cheers to Hyperion.

Gramophone 2017

Nicky Spence is superb. The voice has recently grown to encompass more heroic roles and we hear that in this selection, in the bright, lively tone and ringing top…He deals heroically with Strauss’s more outrageous demands and, perhaps more importantly, he has just the right interpretative keenness and enthusiasm to put a persuasive case for everything he sings here.

4th August 2017

Spence's voice is extremely attractive: lyrical and full of expression, yet also with a bright, ringing top register, ideal for the demands of Strauss's vocal writing...Vignoles is of course magnificent throughout, but especially in an impassioned account of Cäcilie which, even for Strauss, has a particularly fiendish accompaniment!

13th August 2017

The young Scots tenor is a communicative lieder singer. He begins with an impassioned Cäcilie — the best-known “tenor” song here — but goes on to explore less familiar territory. Vignoles, the mastermind behind this series, revels in Strauss’s lush piano writing in the postlude to Die Ulme zu Hirsau.

23rd July 2017

Strauss’s piano writing is already rich with orchestral colours, explored, relished, and teased out wonderfully by Vignoles. In these four last songs, Rebecca Evans matches him in that particular ardent introspection Strauss demands. Nicky Spence is abundant (Cäcilie), soaring (Wenn) and tender (An Sie). Three great performers. Lucky Strauss.

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Recording of the Week, Songs by Richard Strauss, plus the Oboe Concerto and works for wind ensemble

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