In 2018 Augestad and the Oslo Philharmonic released the album Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives, with works by Kurt Weill, Marcus Paus and Charles Ives. Musicologist Ralph P. Locke highlighted Augestad's recording of Paus' Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, based on poetry by Dorothy Parker, as one of the "best opera and vocal music" works in that year, and noted that it "proved to be one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species." Augestad won the 2018 Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) in the Classical class for the album."Tora Augestad: En stemme i særklasse," Dagsavisen"Hun har sagt at hennes nye plate er en 40-årsgave til henne selv. Men det er også en vakker julegave til oss lyttere," Bergens Tidende, 6 December 2019
