STRAUSS, R.: 4 Last Songs / Orchestral Songs (Isokoski) Ondine

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FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK

4 Lieder, Op. 36, TrV 186 (version for soprano and orchestra)

2:56

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

RICHARD STRAUSS

6 Lieder, Op. 68, TrV 235 (version for soprano and orchestra)

No. 2. Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden

3:31

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

No. 3. Sausle, liebe Myrthe

4:53

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

No. 4. Als mir dein Lied erklang

3:51

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

RICHARD DEHMEL

5 Lieder, Op. 39, TrV 189 (version for soprano and orchestra) (text by R. Dehmel)

5:29

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

RICHARD STRAUSS

4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 (version for soprano and orchestra) (text by K.F. Henckell)

4:06

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

5 Lieder, Op. 41, TrV 195 (version for soprano and orchestra) (text by R. Dehmel)

3:43

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

6 Lieder, Op. 37, TrV 187 (version for voice and orchestra) (text by G. Falke)

2:45

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141 (version for soprano and orchestra)

1:35

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

JOHN HENRY MACKAY

10.

4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 (version for voice and orchestra) (text by J.H. Mackay)

3:35

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

HEINRICH HEINE

11.

6 Lieder, Op. 56, TrV 220 (version for soprano and orchestra) (text by H. Heinrich)

6:09

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

HERMANN HESSE

4 Letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs), TrV 296

12.

No. 1. Fruhling

2:59

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

13.

No. 2. September

4:52

Solo: Marek Janowski Soloist

14.

No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen

4:58

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

RICHARD STRAUSS

15.

No. 4. Im Abendrot

7:41

Solo: Soile Isokoski Soloist

Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Marek Janowski

Artistic Quality 10 Sound Quality 10
"I can’t praise this beautiful release enough no lover of Strauss’ songs or of great, elegant, un-prima-donna-ish singing would be without Isokoski’s. Robert Levine - ClassicsToday.com 24 March 2002

This great recording is up there with the greatest of them." Performance ***** Barry Millington - BBC Music Magazine - April 2002

Editor’s Choice
"Soile Isokoski is a wonderful Strauss singer with a beautiful lyric soprano voice - you can just float away on the sound. James Jolly - Gramophone Award 2002

Editor’s Choice - Record of the Month
"Strauss singing doesn’t come much better than this Here she brings her gifts of sheer beauty of sound combined with a quite unaffected approach to pieces that have suffered enough in their time from over-interpretation. Alan Blyth - Gramophone April 2002

Isokoski sings Strauss as if it had been written for her. () the Berlin Radio Symphony plays like the Berlin Philharmonic. John Boyer - American Record Guide - September/October 2002

In her outstanding rendition of fifteen selected Strauss songs, Soile Isokoski unveils a new dimension of singing: she uses her voice like an instrument which has not been invented yet for the orchestra. Wolfram Goertz - Die Zeit 10 October 2002

This is a great recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs; you’ll find it at the top of my 2002 Want List. Marc Mandel - Fanfare Magazine September/October 2002

Classical CD of the Week
"Isokoski has all the attributes of a supreme Straussian soprano: a radiantly beatiful voice, unblemished legato, lustrous high notes and the ability to float those sumptuous phrases on apparently limitless supplies of breath. Richard Wigmore - The Daily Telegraph 21 April 21 2006

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