R Strauss - The Complete Songs Vol.6
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67844
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th October 2012
Contents
Works
Begegnung, Av72Der Kramerspiegel, op.66
Die erwachte Rose, Av60
Kleine Lieder (5), op.69
Rote Rosen (Red Roses), AV76
Wer hat's gethan? ('Es steht mein Lied in Nacht und Frost'), AV84A
Wir beide wollen springen ('Es ging ein Wind durchs weite land'), AV90
Artists
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)Roger Vignoles (piano)
Works
Begegnung, Av72Der Kramerspiegel, op.66
Die erwachte Rose, Av60
Kleine Lieder (5), op.69
Rote Rosen (Red Roses), AV76
Wer hat's gethan? ('Es steht mein Lied in Nacht und Frost'), AV84A
Wir beide wollen springen ('Es ging ein Wind durchs weite land'), AV90
Artists
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)Roger Vignoles (piano)
About
The central work recorded here, Krämerspiegel, owes its genesis to Strauss’s long-lasting and bitter dispute with the German music publishing industry. A Berlin literary critic, Alfred Kerr, wrote him a witty set of satirical verses lampooning music publishers, mentioning many of Strauss’s principal enemies by name. Strauss set all twelve poems to music, and this practical joke finally saw the light of day in 1921. It is easy to understand why the cycle is now rarely performed, given that the texts consist entirely of in-jokes, and that the lion’s share of the music is given to the pianist.
But Strauss’s music is well worth savouring, not least for its humorous references to Strauss’s own works, such as Der Rosenkavalier and Ein Heldenleben, and especially for the beautiful prelude to the eighth song and its reprise as the final extended postlude - used by the composer nearly a quarter of a century later, in his opera Capriccio.
Roger Vignoles is the curator and pianist of this series, and also writes the informative booklet notes. Making her Hyperion debut is soprano Elizabeth Watts, of whom The Guardian commented at a recent Strauss Lieder recital: 'Watts, winner of the Lieder prize at Cardiff Singer of the World in 2007, is already a major artist, but this struck me as making a transformation into a great one, as well as allowing us to hear her in music she seems to have been born to sing. Watts has the right tonal glamour for Strauss along with that tricky combination of vocal ease and immaculate control that his work requires'.
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