The world-famous Diana Damrau is back with a CD of Liszt lieder that she performs with stellar artistry, accompanied by the musically gifted Helmut Deutsch. The album is roughly divided into three sections: songs with texts by German writers, three Petrarch sonnets in Italian, and then more German songs. Her bright, clean, warm sound is evident in the opening track of the album, where the piano introduction is so beautiful that it is virtually a piece on its own. The mystery of "Die Loreley" is appealing, and Damrau's low ...
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The world-famous Diana Damrau is back with a CD of Liszt lieder that she performs with stellar artistry, accompanied by the musically gifted Helmut Deutsch. The album is roughly divided into three sections: songs with texts by German writers, three Petrarch sonnets in Italian, and then more German songs. Her bright, clean, warm sound is evident in the opening track of the album, where the piano introduction is so beautiful that it is virtually a piece on its own. The mystery of "Die Loreley" is appealing, and Damrau's low voice helps conjure that sense of doom for the sailor, along with the dark, swelling piano creating the waves. "Die Drei Zigeuner" is certainly one of the highlights on the album, very Hungarian in its feel. The piano introduction could easily be a violin solo. Damrau tells the story of each gypsy, and Deutsch's piano interlude is Liszt at his best, full of fire and raw passion. Damrau has passion in spades. In "Freudvoll und leidvoll" she builds emotional crescendos into the lines...
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