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Four Last Songs
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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss - Renee Fleming, soprano
  This recording is sublime; Renee Flemings interpretation is outstanding and her German totally understandable. I've ripped this CD to my computer, downloaded to my MP3 player so I can listen as I'm Nordic walking and have a CD in my car!!!

• A powerful live recording
  The combination of Renée Fleming and Christian Thielemann is unique. Their performance has peculiarities, and is hot and strong. It will make pros and cons, that is, divide the evaluation.
  I found it is live, after I heard the audience cough when I was listening to this album.
  Recorded April 2008.

• America's top soprano strutting her Strauss
  Having heard Ms. Fleming singing 'the Last Four Songs' in live concert early last year, I am dying to hear her again in discography, and this album of Strauss including those four songs is indeed a most welcome offer.
  Fleming has a voice of good range with beautiful hues in ALL registers. The lower register is dark, with a shimmering quality that sets it apart from other dark but monotonic ones (I would name no names, but discerning listeners would all know). Her upper register is ample and full. On... more info

• Love Fleming, most of the time....
  First of all, I think Renee Fleming's voice is one of the great wonders in the world of operatic voices. My first reaction to this recording was displeasure. I could not figure out what was upsetting me. Then I realized it was the sound of her voice and its lack of balance with the orchestra. Her sound is almost too 'bright', and does not blend with the orchestra. I do not know the German operatic literature like some of the other interesting reviewers, but I do know what I like in "The Last Four Songs". I... more info

Tracks:

1. Frühling
2. September
3. Beim Schlafengehen
4. Im Abendrot
5. Ach! Wo war ich? Tot? ...
6. Ein Schönes war
7. Es gibt ein Reich
8. Verführung, op. 33 no. 1
9. Freundliche Vision, op. 48 no. 1
10. Winterweihe, op. 48 no. 4
11. Zueignung, op. 10 no. 1
12. Zweite Brautnacht!

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