R. Strauss: Krämerspiegel / Ausgewählte Lieder

On this CD:

1. Krämerspiegel (Shopkeeper's Mirror), 12 songs for voice & piano, Op. 66
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

2. Morgen ("Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 27/4 No 4, Morgen
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

3. Leises Lied ("In einem stillen Garten"), song for voice & piano, Op. 39/1 No 1, Leises Lied
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

4. In goldener Fülle (Wir schreiten in goldener Fülle"), song for voice & piano, Op. 49/2 No 2, In goldener Fülle
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

5. Wer hat's gethan? ("Es steht mein Lied in Nacht und Frost"), song for voice & piano, AV 84a No 6, Wer hat's getan?
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

6. Ich Schwebe ("Ich schwebe wie auf Engelsschwingen"), song for voice & piano, Op. 48/2 No 2, Ich schwebe
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

7. Ich trage meine Minne, song for voice & piano, Op. 32/1 No 1, Ich trage meine Minne
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

8. Einerlei ("Ihr Mund ist stets derselbe"), song for voice & piano, Op. 69/3 No 3, Einerlei
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

9. Allerseelen ("Stell' auf den Tisch die duftenden Reseden"), song for voice & piano, Op. 10/8 No 8, Allerseelen
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Peter Schreier, Norman Schetler

Tracks:

Gedichte Aus 'Letzte Blatter' Von Hermann Gilm, Op.10: Zueignung/Nichts/Die Georgine....
Heimkehr, Op.15, 5
Gedichte Von Felix Dahn, Op.21: Du Meines Herzens Kronelein/Ach Lieb, Ich Muss Nun Scheiden
Madchenblumen, Gedichte Von Felix Dahn, Op.22: Kornblumen/Mohnblumen/Epheu/Wasserrose
O Warst Du Mein, Op.26, 2
Morgen, Op.27, 4
Traum Durch Die Dammerung, Op.29, 1
Ich Trage Meine Minne, Op.32, 1
Befreit, Op.39, 4
Gefunden, Op.56, 1
Kramerspiegel, Gesange Von Alfred Kerr, Op.66: Einst Kam Der Bock Als Bote/O Lieber Kunstler/...
Drei Lieder Der Ophelia Aus 'Hamlet', Op.67: Wie Erkenn' Ich Mein Treulieb/Guten Morgen, S' Ist...
Wanderers Gemutsrube

Customer Reviews:

A great many Strauss lieder, done with radiant enthusiasm.......2006-01-09

Mitsuko Shirai pithces herself into every song here with radiant tone and inner fervor. That's how it should be in Strauss, whose default mode was rapture. It can get to be too much of a good thing--there are fully 27 lieder here, including almost all the greatest hits (Morgen, Zueignung, Allerseelen). It's like a diet of lavender and honey.

Not all listeners will take immediately to Shirai's mezzo, which is in very good shape here in 1993-94 when the singer was in her early forties. Her throaty tone tends to be a bit matronly and shiny bright at the same time. She certainly doesn't have a standard German voice, but then Shirai is the leading (and only?) Japanese lieder specialist in the world. One can udnerstand why she has a host of loyal fans--nothing here is less than deeply committed and intense. Her then-husband, Hartmut Holl, accompanies superbly, and the recorded sound is fine.

R. Strauss: Krämerspiegel / Ausgewählte Lieder

Average customer rating:

sweetly heartsick

R. Strauss: Krämerspiegel / Ausgewählte Lieder

Manufacturer: Berlin Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Customer Reviews:

sweetly heartsick.......2003-03-21

I first heard Schreier in my midteens, when I would listen to the recordings of a music student then rooming with my family back in Guatemala. Going through a lonely gay adolescence, hearing Bach sung by him and others, I could see how a composer could become personally as important as a fifth evangelist. I was religious then, although I still very much love Bach.

I have heard Schreier played seldom since, but I have always compared him to every tenor I happened hear, and, however much I enjoyed the singing, I usually found lacking Schreier's utter lack of strain, his lucid eloquence, his unadorned authority. His name was hardly mentioned by the gushing nostalgics that one usually hears during radio opera intermissions. Years ago he was featured in a TV performance of the Christmas oratorio which I happily taped and thenceforward there's been nothing, really.

His absence from LA media, I figured, meant that Schreier musn't be that good. Somehow it happened that the difficulty of Bach was his well-fitting niche. Otherwise, maybe, he was just a nice enough voice to put up with, not much to look into. Still, I was attached to my memory of him so I proposed to test this a little. I'd try out this Strauss disk, I thought. To me Strauss was just OK. Let's see if this is something I'd care for.

It is.

How does Schreier do it? Here he has escaped to a land so distantly bound by poetry and theatrics and I've gone there with him. I am forced to acknowledge once again the power and mystery of music and I hardly know how to explain it. Who has done this? Was it Strauss or Schreier. I am happily befuddled. I don't care. 'Allerseelen' is branded in my mind as a glimpse into this magic, and I think I owe it to this tenor. I am grateful to him.

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