Tod und Verklärung

"... this is a great disc of Strauss, combining two supercharged tone poems with a less well known bouquet of songs ... Furthermore, it's a gorgeous recording, set down in the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, no less, which audiophiles of a previous generation will recognise as being the scene of some of Karajan's greatest recorded triumphs with the Berlin Philharmonic. The Linn engineers have done a first rate job in using it to illuminate the sound: every detail, so important in Strauss, is perfectly captured, glittering under the microphone's microscope, and it sets the seal on a highly recommendable release".

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"For his first Richard Strauss album, Robin Ticciati offers a welcome deviation from the standard. We've got two of the composer's most popular early tone poems, admittedly, but as a coupling come the remarkable Brentano Lieder, composed for Elisabeth Schumann towards the end of the First World War but rarely presented as a complete set. It's a Straussian showcase with a difference, then, and one as much for Ticciati and his Berlin orchestra as for soprano Louise Alder ... a fresh and invigorating album".