Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 8

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RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 8
Nicky Spence (tenor) Rebecca Evans (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 July 2017

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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.

"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." Gramophone

"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." Observer

"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." Sunday Times

Tracks:

Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2
Wenn ..., Op. 31 No. 2
Bruder Liederlich, Op. 41 No. 4
An Sie, Op. 43 No. 1
Die Ulme zu Hirsau, Op. 43 No. 3
Fünf Gedichte, Op. 46
Junggesellenschwur, Op. 49 No. 6
Wer wird von der Welt verlangen, Op. 67 No. 4
Hab'ich euch denn je geraten, Op. 67 No. 5
Wanderers Gemutsruhe, Op. 67 No. 6
Der Pokal, Op. 69, No. 2
Vier letzte Lieder
Sie wissen's nicht, Op. 49 No. 5

Richard Strauss-The Complete Songs, Vol 8-Nicky Spence & Rebecca Evans