Eileen di Tullio offers two contrasting Strauss lieder

THE SONGBIRD: American soprano Eileen di Tullio was born in New York and attended the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. She won a foundation award at the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air and made her Town Hall recital debut in 1960. Di Tullio sang at least a few recitals and concerts in the 1960s and 1970s in and around New York City, often with her husband Aldo di Tullio, a vocal coach, accompanying her.
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. 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. One of the songs, "Amor" was 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). Strauss's gentle song "Heimkehr" comes from a much earlier period, composed in 1886 as part of a set of five lieder, Op. 15.

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Beautiful soprano voice and excellent coloratura ❤🎉

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Thanks for this songbirdwatcher! Eileen di Tullio really deserves to be better known. There's such a tenderness in her voice.