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Natalie Dessay - Strauss: AMOR (Brentano Lieder), Live 1991

THE SONGBIRD: Natalie Dessay was born in Lyon in 1965. In her youth, she studied ballet and then acting, but discovered her singing voice at age 20 and won a series of competitions and made several high profile debuts. With her charismatic stage presence, natural musicianship, and extremely high vocal extension, she became a world-wide star with performances at major opera venues and dozens of commercial recordings and videos. This is from a recital at Royaumont Abbey near Paris in June 1991, very early in Dessay's career. Dessay commercially recorded "Amor" with orchestra in 2004, but her she sings it with piano more than a decade earlier. THE MUSIC: Richard Strauss's Brentano Lieder (Op. 68) was written mid-career in 1918 after a 12-year lapse in songwriting during which he had composed many of his major operatic works (Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Die Frau Ohne Schatten). The six songs for piano and voice to poems by Clemens Brentano were dedicated to the German soprano Elisabeth Schumann, and then orchestrated by Strauss in 1940/41 and rededicated variously to Adele Kern and Viorica Ursuleac. The song collection sits high and demands a wide vocal compass, a variety of colors, and extreme dynamics from floating suspensions to bold declamations. "Amor" is a short song that is written in Strauss's signature shimmering, modulating coloratura textures to accentuate the poem's story of Cupid beguiling a shepherdess who helps him when his wings catch fire. Strauss asks the singer to dance delicate vocal pirouettes and perform other acrobatics such as many intricate trills (including on High C).