RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)

The Complete Songs - 3

 

1 Nichts Op 10 No 2 GILM [1'33]

2 Die Zeitlose Op 10 No 7 GILM [1'39]

3 Die Verschwiegenen Op 10 No 6 GILM [1'10]

4 Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute Op 17 No 1 SCHACK [1'56]

5 Ständchen Op 17 No 2 SCHACK [2'30]

6 Das Geheimnis Op 17 No 3 SCHACK [2'13]

7 Aus den Liedern der Trauer Op 17 No 4 SCHACK [1'54]

8 Nur Mut! Op 17 No 5 SCHACK [3'21]

9 Barkarole Op 17 No 6 SCHACK [2'28]

10 Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es frommen Op 19 No 1 SCHACK [1'57]

11 Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne Op 19 No 3 SCHACK [2'17]

12 Hoffen und wieder verzagen Op 19 No 5 SCHACK [2'53]

13 Ach weh mir unglückhaftem Mann Op 21 No 4 DAHN [2'13]

14 Die Frauen sind oft fromm und still Op 21 No 5 DAHN [2'37]

15 Heimliche Aufforderung Op 27 No 3 MACKAY [3'17]

16 Ich trage meine Minne Op 32 No 1 HENCKELL [2'15]

17 Sehnsucht Op 32 No 2 LILIENCRON [3'25]

18 Liebeshymnus Op 32 No 3 HENCKELL [2'24]

19 O süßer Mai! Op 32 No 4 HENCKELL [1'35]

20 Himmelsboten Op 32 No 5 DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN [3'28]

21 Für funfzehn Pfennige Op 36 No 2 DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN [2'22]

22 Anbetung Op 36 No 4 RÜCKERT [4'43]

23 Winterweihe Op 48 No 4 HENCKELL [2'36]

24 Winterliebe Op 48 No 5 HENCKELL [1'48]

25 Freundliche Vision Op 48 No 1 BIERBAUM [2'38]

 

Total Duration: 62'52

 

Andrew Kennedy - tenor

Roger Vignoles - piano

 

Hyperion’s Strauss Lieder series is fast becoming a worthy successor to the seminal Schubert and Schumann Lieder sets on the label. This third volume features the brilliant young British tenor Andrew Kennedy, whose performances in concert, in operas and on disc have received the highest praise. Hearing Strauss’s songs sung by a tenor is a wonderful and rare experience, and brings a different colour to even the most well-known songs on this disc. This recording fills in some of the gaps left by the first two volumes. Together with them it completes the eights songs of Opus 10, the six songs of Opus 19 and the five songs of Schlichte Weisen Op 21. It also presents two groups, Opus 17 and 32, complete as originally published, and it ends with three songs from Opus 48. Altogether the selection covers the eighteen years from 1882 to 1900, during which Strauss composed all his major tone poems. Roger Vignoles performs with his usual matchless musicianship and provides the extensive booklet notes.

 

Praise for COMPLETE STRAUSS SONGS VOL 1: Christine Brewer / Roger Vignoles: CDA67488

‘Could there be a more enticing title stamped across a CD than Strauss: The Complete Songs—1? Richard Strauss the man may be widely resistible; but it would take someone extraordinarily hard-hearted not to take any delight in his luxuriant imagination and succulent harmonies … Each planned CD in the series will be shaped around the talents of different singers, and Brewer’s disc marks a tremendous start’ (The Times) ‘Hyperion is following its massive surveys of Schubert and Schumman by kicking off a retrospective of Strauss’s complete lieder with a recital by Christine Brewer and pianist Roger Vignoles. If this is anything to go by, the series should be at once scholarly and thrilling’ (The Guardian)

 

Praise for COMPLETE STRAUSS SONGS VOL 2: Anne Schwanewilms / Roger Vignoles: CDA67588

‘Not even Felicity Lott with Graham Johnson can match Anne Schwanewilms and Roger Vignoles here in the Drei Lieder der Ophelia … By any yardstick this is magnificent singing, with Schwanewilms always alert to the dramatic potential in so many of Strauss’s songs … Again you admire the effortless partnership between the two musicians, each, it seems, hanging on the other’s last word and always raising the musical bar. This second volume of the Complete Strauss songs suggests we are at the start of another remarkable Hyperion journey’ (International Record Review)

 

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