MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder

WAGNER: Wesendonck-Lieder,

Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

 

Dame Felicity Lott (soprano); Quatuor Schumann

 

New transcriptions by Christian Favre, pianist of the Quatuor Schumann:

"I love singing with these marvellous musicians and I am so grateful to have had the chance to sing Isolde's Liebestod: I can't imagine that it would have happened otherwise! And I love the Wesendonck Lieder which I hadn't sung since my student days: I think they work very well in Christian Favre's arrangement." FL

 

Dame Felicity Lott is one of Britain's best-loved sopranos. In opera, her portrayals of the Strauss and Mozart roles in particular have led to critical and popular acclaim worldwide. Her concert engagements take her to the major orchestras, working with Rattle, Haitink, Mehta, Previn, Masur, Welser-Möst, Sawallisch and Sir Andrew Davis. Much of her concert and recital repertoire is recorded, as are many of her great operatic roles: from her wonderful Marschallin under Carlos Kleiber to her Belle Hélène, with which she enchanted the Parisians when she sang the role for the first time at the Chatelet in Paris in 2000. A founder member of The Songmakers' Almanac, Felicity has appeared on the major recital platforms of the world and in June 2005 she celebrated the 30th anniversary of her recital debut at the Wigmore Hall. A noted exponent of French song, she has been awarded the title Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Legion d'Honneur by the French Government. She was made a CBE in the 1990 New Year Honours and, in 1996, was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire. In February 2003 she was awarded the title of Bayerische Kammersängerin.

 

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