Operetta Album, The (Schneider)

Product description Operetta Album, The (Schneider) Description Amazon.co.uk You don't have to be Viennese to love Viennese operettas, whose lilting waltz-rhythms and catchy tunes have captivated audiences since Johann Strauss, Jr--the Waltz King--originated the style with his masterpiece Die Fledermaus in 1874. His genius remains unequalled; among his successors and imitators, only Lehár (who had the temerity, and the skill, to compete with Schubert's setting of Goethe's "Heidenröslein"--No 15 on this disc) got anywhere near him in compositional ability or inspiration. Thus, the standouts here are the "Laughing Song" from Fledermaus and the "Vilja-Song" from The Merry Widow . Many songs are the only survivors of totally forgotten operettas; indeed, some were written by amateur "spare-time" composers, like Heuberger and Zeller; yet the former's title song and the latter's "Don't be cross" (No 4) have become classics. Most are about love, dreamed of, yearned for, fulfilled and unfulfilled; primarily slow, the songs are set off by a few lively, exuberant, mischievous ones. The programme ends with "Vienna, City of my Dreams", which celebrates Vienna's glamour, but indirectly also its melting-pot culture: the name of its creator is Rudolf Sieczynski. Barbara Bonney, star of opera and concert stage, obviously loves this music, but is not quite at home in it. Her voice, clear as a bell with a wonderful top, is perhaps too pure and uninflected for its sensuous seductiveness, sentimentality and robust, earthy humour. Her German diction is unclear, and the Viennese dialect sounds alien to her. (Her translations, though mostly accurate, also betray a lack of idiomatic feeling.) Pianist Ronald Schneider's accompaniments are much closer to the style, but he sometimes camps them up. --Edith Eisler, Amazon.com

1: Im Chambre Separée
2: Ich Schenk Mein Herz
3: Ich Bin Die Christel Von Der Post
4: Sei Nicht Bos
5: Du Sollst Der Kaiser Meiner Seele Sein
6: Als Geblüht Der Kirschenbaum
7: Draussen in Sievering
8: Schwips Lied
9: Mein Herr Marquis
10: Es mufs was Wunderbares sein, von dir geliebt zu werden
11: Im Salzkammergut
12: Du nur bist das Gluck meines Lebens
13: Strahlender Mond
14: Vilja Lied
15: Sah ein Knab ein Roslein stehn
16: Einer Wird Kommen
17: Meine Lippen, Die Kussen So Heiss
18: Wien, du Stadt meiner Fraume

Number of Discs: 1

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