Berlioz / Lizst / Wagner / Sado / Radio France - Faust - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Wagner,R. / Windgassen / Varnay / Hotter - Siegfried [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/13/2015

This new album is a stroke of luck. For 15 years Nina Stemme has been reinvigorating Wagner's female roles with the dramatic soul and vocal power previously attained perhaps only by her compatriot Birgit Nilsson. Nina Stemme's role interpretations are met with great acclaim among both audience and critics, and 2013 she was the first recipient of the Opera Award for Best Female Singer. Nina Stemme was appointed Swedish Court Singer 2006, Austrian Kammersängerin 2012, and she has been selected InchSinger of the YearInch twice, 2005 and 2012, in the German magazine Opernwelt. On this she performs works from Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried, Hollander, and Die Walkure

This is Ukraine-born Alexei Grynyuk's first solo recording of the music of Franz Liszt, a composer that has been in Grynyuk's repertoire since he first started winning piano competitions at six years old. Grynyuk is a first prize-winner at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition and the Shanghai International Piano Competition.