liederoperagreats's video: Soile Isokoski Chanson triste Henri Duparc

Soile Isokoski--soprano Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra John Storgårds--conductor 2015 ============== "[The Berlioz] repays a lieder-style sense of detail in both word and expression. This Isokoski certainly has, and it's the more successful performance of the two…Storgårds conducts with unusually clean-cut clarity."; BBC Music Magazine November 2015 "[Isokoski's] familiar artistry remains intact. Lines are beautifully sustained. Her way with words is subtle and crystal clear, with little sense of interventionist nudging. As always, she aims to let the music speak for itself."; Gramophone Magazine September 2015 "Isokoski provides, as ever, a masterclass in smooth line and radiant tone in this disc of French music...Isokoski’s singing has an inwardness that here could be mistaken for coolness, but it’s a performance that takes us into her confidence, and at the big moments she soars with the orchestra, even if one might ideally wish for a more voluptuously Wagnerian voice."; The Guardian 20th August 2015 ============= "Soile Isokoski is currently one of the finest singers performing her repertoire and she is a regular guest on the most renowned stages and concert halls in the world. In the spring of 2005 she returned to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for a new production of Faust and in 2006 for performances of Don Giovanni. A native of Finland, Soile Isokoski graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and made her concert debut there in 1986. In 1987 Ms. Isokoski won 2nd prize in the BBC Singer of the World Competition and subsequently won 1st prize in the Elly Ameling and Tokyo International Singing Competitions. After her opera debut in the role of Mimí in La Bohème at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki she went on to capture audiences and critics in the opera houses of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Milan and Paris and also at the festivals in Salzburg, Savonlinna, Edinburgh and Orange. Ms. Isokoski continues to work together with many renowned conductors including Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Seiji Ozawa, John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernhard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Valerij Gergiev and James Levine. She has a wide-ranging concert repertoire and regularly gives recitals with her permanent accompanist Marita Viitasalo. These, and other recitals, have taken her to London (Wigmore Hall), Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin (Philharmonic Hall), Munich, Vienna (Musikverein), Rome, Athens, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tokyo. They have also recorded works by numerous Scandinavian composers as well as Schubert and Schumann. Among her recent recordings, the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss in collaboration with Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin received the Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award, having been chosen earlier in the year as Editor's Choice - Recording of the Month in the April 2002 issue. Together with Bo Skovhus and Marita Viitasalo she has recorded Hugo Wolf's Italian Songbook (Ondine). In honour of her notable contribution to Finnish music Ms. Isokoski was awarded with the Pro-Finlandia medal in December 2002. The above information is drawn from Allegro Artist Management’s homepage."