Lise Davidsen: Beethoven - Wagner - Verdi

 
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / RICHARD WAGNER / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Lise Davidsen: Beethoven - Wagner - Verdi
Lise Davidsen (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder

[ Decca / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 16 April 2021

Lise's second album explodes from the speakers with Leonore's aria from Fidelio, the role which bowled over critics in March 2020: "She will surely be the outstanding Leonore of the next generation." ★★★★ Financial Times. Presenting some of the great operatic heroines from the German and Italian repertoire: Verdi's Leonora from La forza del destino, Cherubini's Medea, and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana further demonstrating her versatility. Featuring Wagner's five Wesendonck Lieder which has become a signature piece for Lise and which affords us a glimpse of her future Isolde. Recorded in lockdown with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the doyen of British opera conductors, Sir Mark Elder.

"It's a one-in-a-million voice." Antonio Pappano

"Voices like hers come round once in a generation." - ★★★★ Financial Times

"The voice of the century." - ZDF Heute Journal

"A God-given instrument, used with sensitive artistry. To hear it alone is worth the price of any ticket." ★★★★ The Daily Telegraph

"A once-in-a-generation-voice" - Opera Magazine

"One of the greatest vocal talents to have emerged in recent years, if not decades." - Gramophone

GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble

"Another fine album from an artist who, quite simply, is one of the greatest voices to be heard today." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2021

"Davidsen's soprano has a brighter gleam and greater expansiveness than that of any other singer to have emerged on to the opera scene in the last decade. She's not a singer to signpost every moodswing; listen closely, though, and her attention to detail and to the colour of her sound is telling" The Guardian

Tracks:

Beethoven: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (from Fidelio)

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65

Cherubini: Dei tuoi figli la madre tu vedi (from Medee)

Mascagni: Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana)

Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)

Verdi: Ave Maria (from Otello)

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (5)

Lise Davidsen on her album