Search - Hugo [Composer] Wolf, Richard [1] Strauss, Sergey Rachmaninov :: Wolf, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ives, Weill

The song recital recorded here by four-time Grammy Award winner Dawn Upshaw brings together five composers of vastly different persuasions: Ives, the first composer who captured the "feel" of America in music; Weill, who began life composing important "classical" scores and spent the last ten years of his life writing for movies and Broadway; Rachmaninov, whose piano concertos and symphonies are known the world over; Strauss, Germany's last all-around genius; and Hugo Wolf, the only one among the five who devoted himself to song--to the exclusion of almost everything else. "[An] astonishing soprano." -- hicago Tribune "A hushed, velvety tone and an irresistible intensity." -- New York Times