Diana Damrau - Poesie (Strauss Lieder)

ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE: http://links.emi.com/Poesie .... "This is a performance of transcendent art" proclaimed Opera News on hearing Diana Damrau's interpretation of Strauss' Zerbinetta on her last Virgin Classics album, 'Coloraturas'. In this collection of Strauss songs, recorded in the composer's hometown, she is joined by the Munich Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann, the leading German conductor of his generation.

Soprano Diana Damrau, described by The Sunday Times as "the most dazzling star to have emerged from Germany in recent years" was born in Bavaria. The region's capital, Munich, was the birthplace of Richard Strauss, and in March 2009 a programme of the composer's songs was presented at the city's Gasteig Philharmonie, with Damrau accompanied by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under its Chief Conductor, Christian Thielemann.

"Strauss loved female voices," says Damrau, "and he explores some extreme possibilities in these many-layered songs, each with its different point of view. Sensitivity to the words is vital to telling the story of each song, to capturing the rapid changes of mood and all the colours."

Strauss' operatic roles for lyric-coloratura soprano, notably Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Aithra (Die Aegyptische Helena) and Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) have played an important role in Damrau's career.

On the new CD, favourites such as 'Ständchen', 'Wiegenlied', 'Allerseelen', 'Cäcilie' and 'Zueignung' feature alongside more rarely heard numbers, and six tracks recorded under studio conditions now complement the sixteen songs captured live.

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[VintageKitch]

Her voice is something else...I have never heard such perfection in my life! So beautiful and she seems like such a lovely person :)

[choirfreak26]

It's amazing to see the physical manifestation of feeling when I watch people like Diana and Joyce DiDonato record in a studio. As a singer watching her move teaches me so much. Beautiful :)

[ladyofeldar]

her English is almost as great as her voice :)

[demk92]

i love her comparison of the voice with a horse! never heard it described so... perfectly!

[Xerkun]

"He [Strauss] loved female voice..." I am certain he would've adored Damrau's voice.

[Homoclassicus]

@sfkcbf Janowitz's voice was unusually focused and straight even for her time. You say the word "attractive", but what it really means is just "taste". There was never a rule for voices having to sound just like Janowitz. In fact, till the 30's and 40's people would find even more "attractive" a voice with faster vibrato and more heterogeneous colours, and I guess they had great singers by then (Supervía, for example). Tastes change. What can't change is the respect for the music.

[piotrneustein]

Diana, you are amzing...

[piotrekherok]

personally Diana Damrau is my favourite soprano. when it's desirable to sing gently, she rises to the challenge and her voice sounds so delicately and beautifully, but when it's needed to sing with great passion and anger there's no one better then her ( her performance of Der Holle Rache at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden is still, in my opinion, the best ever recorded). Contemporary singers may sound the same, but Gundula Janowitz also sounds similar to other singers from her age.