Diana Damrau - R. Strauss: Vier Letzte LiederFor me, Strauss is one of the greatest composers," Diana Damrau has said. "The way he handles the soprano voice is a joy. And to be able to sing his music with my voice feels like coming home." The centrepiece of this album of Strauss songs is the sublime Vier letzte Lieder, in which Damrau born and trained in Bavaria joins forces with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and it's long standing Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons. Her partner in a

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these rarities include early piano pieces influenced by Chopin and the fragment of an unfinished violin sonata

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Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society present a new live recording devoted to the master of the symphony

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