Lucia Popp - Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder - Fruhling

Lucia Popp sings the first of Strauss' Four Last Songs.

1977. Conductor: Georg Solti.

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Music

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• Four
• Last
• Songs
• Vier
• Letzte
• Lieder
• Lucia
• Popp
• soprano
• aria
• opera
• Strauss

[blueyedboy84]

This is miles better than Fleming. Fleming sounds like she's singing Gershwin with all the swooping-not good. Popp is an amazing one-off singer. NO singer ever sung high notes with such a distinctive sound that is HER only-Listen to 1:07- on schlossen? she is incredible. It is truly tragic she is no longer with us. Also listen to her Mozart Ach ich fuhls from Serail .

[katesinger]

dont know how you can say Popp's voice "lacks colour" !!!? and "line" !!!??

are you serious!! far out. she is one of the greats. listen again!!! they're two elements she has that many many others lack.

[BonaparteDeGaulle]

Je partage tout à fait le point de vus de Chateaubriant26 bravo à toi, Non vraiment quelle belle analyse.

[Chateaubriand26]

@PrevitaliA Et bien on le peut, exactement de la manière dont je l'ai fait, en le disant. Chanter comme Schwarzkopf le fait, ce n'est pas chanter avec maniérisme, c'est uniquement chanter juste, avec élasticité. Popp se débarrasse simplement des notes une fois qu'elle est arrivé dans les aigus. Quand chante "Lüfte", elle ne laisse pas paraître la notion aérienne, elle passe le mot au hachoir car elle n'a pas l'amplitude requise. Lorsqu'on a entendu Schwarzkopf le chanter, rien n'est plus pareil.

[PrevitaliA]

@Chateaubriand26 Comment on peut comparer la voix écrasée (et toujours un peu en dessous de la note) de Norman - et la froideur de Nilsson (sans parler de l'atroce maniérisme de Schwarzkopf) à cette interprétation où la perfection vocale rejoint la grandeur humaine? Merci Lucia!!!

[Chateaubriand26]

J'ai l'impression que son chant est très bucal, ce qui fait que dans les aigües ce n'est pas très agréable. Mais comment en vouloir à Lucia Popp, avec une telle concurence, sur une oeuvre si magistralement interprétée par les plus grandes, Nilsson, Norman, Janowitz et bien sur le sommet de Schwarzkopf, il n'y a plus grand chose à ajouter. Et ça reste toujours bien superieur à ce que nous servent Fleming et Gydov.

[tangowen09]

Thank you, Gabba02! I had never truly appreciated Popp's artistry until I watched these four clips. I am sure if R. Strauss had lived up to the 1990s, he would have picked Popp to premiere this great cycle. Her stage presence was so stately and saintly, and her high notes were produced at such ease! She was from the communist Czechoslovakia, I think that's why the bitterness in her rendition was so genuine.

[bobareebop]

I am especially fond of the recording of the Four Last Songs that she made with MTT in 1993...her last recording as I understand it. Her and MTT were really on the same page, the orchestra is just sumptuous, and Popp is brilliant.

[Abaris379]

I agree with many here, looks like, that Lucia Popp's Vier Letzte Lieder stands supreme among others. She had everything going for it; soaring high notes that seem to open up a whole sky above you, lyricism, focus, incredible sense of line and phrasing and an abundance of heart.

[MrAndredekock]

YES! She has the Strauss lieder touch and WHAT an exponent she is! Ms Popp stands right alongside Te Kanawa, Norman and Rothenberger in her performance and her interpretation. Some people have the ability to sing these 4 songs and some, who are even great opera divas, just do NOT have the ability and miss the mark as far as interpreting and performing these four Strauss songs is concerned.

[znbr1]

@blueyedboy84

...Agree.such a loss

[Armenia091056]

Lucia popp is still just amazing! every note is perfect and her voice has just the right amount of vibrato... not to much it just enhances the brilliancy of each note, doesn't overtake it like it does with a lot of singers