[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 30 April 2008
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'The third volume of Hyperion's Strauss song series comes with a tenor riding the chromatic waves. Kennedy's young voice still has some growing to do in lieder, but his flexible tones and avoidance of the Precious Beautiful Voice give lots of pleasure. Roger Vignoles's piano accompaniments are superb' (The Times)
"Vignoles's playing continues to achieve a maximum of freshness and invention and a chameleon-like closeness to his singer's tone and line. Kennedy's voice is young, sweet, fluent and has what some commentators call "sap". Greater naturalness (and especially inwardness) will come in his live and later performances of this repertoire. In the meantime, a lot of work and study has gone into this disc and the readings attain a consistently high standard of beautiful music-making."
(Gramophone July 2008)
'Andrew Kennedy … gives consistent pleasure with his sweet, sappy tone, free-ringing high notes and keen characterisation. Roger Vignoles's playing is as colourful and eloquent as his booklet notes' (Daily Telegraph)
The third instalment in Hyperion's edition of Lieder by Richard Strauss is the first to employ a male singer and, in tenor Andrew Kennedy, Roger Vignoles has picked one of Britain's finest young singers … A fine achievement and an essential addition to any Straussian's or song-lover's collection. Throughout this disc, as with the previous ones, I was reminded simply of how abundant Strauss's melodic gift was; if in this personal and subjective genre he occasionally let himself get carried away, there's so much fine music that it's difficult not to get swept along' (Musicweb.com)
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.
Nichts Op 10 No 2
Die Zeitlose Op 10 No 7
Die Verschwiegenen Op 10 No 6
Seitdem dein Aug' in meines schaute Op 17 No 1
Ständchen Op 17 No 2
Das Geheimnis Op 17 No 3
Aus den Liedern der Trauer Op 17 No 4
Nur Mut! Op 17 No 5
Barkarole Op 17 No 6
Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es frommen Op 19 No 1
Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne Op 19 No 3
Hoffen und wieder verzagen Op 19 No 5
Ach weh mir unglückhaftem Mann Op 21 No 4
Die Frauen sind oft fromm und still Op 21 No 5
Heimliche Aufforderung Op 27 No 3
Ich trage meine Minne Op 32 No 1
Sehnsucht Op 32 No 2; Liebeshymnus Op 32 No 3
O süßer Mai! Op 32 No 4
Himmelsboten Op 32 No 5
Für funfzehn Pfennige Op 36 No 2 Anbetung Op 36 No 4 Winterweihe Op 48 No 4
Winterliebe Op 48 No 5
Freundliche Vision Op 48 No 1