Sir Georg Solti, were reissued, notably Mahler's Eighth Symphony with Lucia Popp, Arleen Augér, Yvonne Minton, Helen Watts, René Kollo, John Shirley-Quirk and Martti Talvela; and Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss with Helga Dernesch, Ruth Hesse, James King and Walter Berry (Covent Garden, 1976, Fiori). Two of her recordings won the Grammy Award, Peter Grimes in 1979 and Songs Of Maurice Ravel in 1984. In 1964, the soprano sang in the first recording of Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen (released in 1971), conducted by Robert Craft. She recorded Britten's War Requiem in 1991 in an award-winning CD conducted by Richard Hickox. Alan Blyth wrote, comparing the recording to earlier ones: In 2005, a live concert performance of Britten's Our Hunting Fathers was issued on the London Philharmonic Orchestra's own label. Personal life Harper married twice. Her first marriage to Leonard Buck ended in divorce in 1972. She married Argentinian scientist Eduardo E. Benarroch in 1973. Harper's sister was a cellist in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and her brother was a hornist with the ROH, the Royal Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. Heather Harper received the CBE in 1965. She died on 22 April 2019, aged 88. References 1930 births 2019 deaths Musicians from Belfast Operatic sopranos from Northern Ireland Grammy Award winners Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music Alumni of Trinity College of Music 20th-century women singers from Northern Ireland 20th-century British women opera singers 20th-century Irish women opera singers