Track Listing

1. Zueignung ('Ja, du weisst es, teur Seele'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 10/1 (TrV 141/1)
2. Nichts ('Nennen soll ich, sagt ihr'), song for voice & piano, Op. 10/2 (TrV 141/2)
3. Die Nacht ('Aus dem Walde tritt die Nacht'), song for voice & piano, Op. 10/3 (TrV 141/3)
4. Wer hat's gethan? ('Es steht mein Lied in Nacht und Frost'), song for voice & piano, o.Op. 84a (TrV 142, AV 84a)
5. Befreit ('Du wirst nicht weinen'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 39/4 (TrV 189/4)
6. Allerseelen ('Stell' auf den Tisch die duftenden Reseden'), song for voice & piano, Op. 10/8 (TrV 141/8)
7. Ruhe, meine Seele ('Nicht ein L�ftchen regt sich leise'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 27/1 (TrV 170/1)
8. C�cilie ('Wenn du es w�sstest'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 27/2 (TrV 170/2)
9. Heimliche Aufforderung ('Auf, hebe die funkelnde Schale empor zum Mund'), song for voice & piano, Op. 27/3 (TrV 170/3)
10. Morgen ('Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 27/4 (TrV 170/4)
11. Freundliche Vision ('Nicht im Schlafe hab' ich das getr�umt'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 48/1 (TrV 202/1)
12. Ich liebe dich ('Vier adlige Rosse voran unserm Wagen'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 37/2 (TrV 187/2)
13. All' mein Gedanken, mein Herz und mein Sinn, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/1 (TrV 160/1)
14. Du meines Herzens Kr�nelein, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/2 (TrV 160/2)
15. Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden!, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/3 (TrV 160/3)
16. Ach, weh mir ungl�ckhaftern Mann, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/4 (TrV 160/4)
17. Die Frauen sind oft fromm und still, song for voice & piano, Op. 21/5 (TrV 160/5)
18. Traum durch die D�mmerung ('Weite Wiesen im D�mmergrau'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29/1 (TrV 172/1)
19. Nachtgang ('Wir gingen durch die dunkle (stille), milde Nacht'), song for voice & piano, Op. 29/3 (TrV 172/3)
20. Wozu noch, M�chden, soll es frommen, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/1 (TrV 152/1)
21. Breit' uber mein Haupt dien schwarzes Haar, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/2 (TrV 152/2)
22. Sch�n sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/3 (TrV 152/3)
23. Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/4 (TrV 152/4)
24. Hoffen und wieder verzagen, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/5 (TrV 152/5)
25. Mein Herz ist stumm, mein Herz und mein Sinn, song for voice & piano, Op. 19/6 (TrV 152/6)
26. Ich trage meine Minne, song for voice & piano, Op. 32/1 (TrV 174/1)
27. Sehnsucht ('Ich ging den Weg entlang, der einsam lag'), song for voice & piano, Op. 32/2 (TrV 174/2)
28. Schlechtes Wetter ('Das ist ein schlechtes Wetter'), song for voice & piano, Op. 69/5 (TrV 237/5)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85173 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

An award-winning Strauss recital
Just as I write, the Gramophone's 2007 award for best vocal recital went to this album of Strauss songs from rising tenor Jonas Kaufmann. I had given up, more or less, on new lieder singers who can match the old standbys. But in many ways this CD deserves the prize. Kaufmann (age 38, born in Munich, now established at the Zurich Opera) possesses an attractive, somewhat beefy tenor, and his approach to Strauss is as robust as that of Ben Heppner or James King, one of Kaufmann's teachers. The stereotype of Strauss is that his songs are soaring lyrical flights devoid of profound emotion or poetically deep texts. But sheer beauty counts for a lot.

Kaufmann's semi-operatic approach is quite winning (another hefty tenor, Peter Anders, famously sang these songs in operatic style sixty years ago in wartime and post-war Germany), and his ringing tone brings a heroic element to melodies usually taken by sopranos -- Strauss was married to a gifted lyric soprano, for whom much of his song output was written. Helmut Deutsch is a skillful accompanist, somehwat on the workmanlike side. Sadly, the sound of the piano is clangy and clattery, and the engineers give Kaufmann's voice a metallic edge at loud volume. One expects Kaufmann to receive better treatment now that he's an exclusive Decca artist.

All in all, for those who love lieder, this CD is a welcome find and a harbinger of more exciting work from this rising star in the future.

P.S. Sept. 2009 - Anyone who loves this CD should check out a live Schone Mullerin from Kaufmann in 2004. It's on YouTube in good sound, and the singer is in glorious voice, quite the best we've had form a tenor since Wunderlich so far as pure vocal sound goes.

Who needs sopranos when you've got these guys?
Jonas Kaufmann may not be a household name yet, but if he keeps this up, he will be soon. This is an incredible album that every Strauss lover and many of the unconverted need to hear. Gorgeous singing, with extraordinarily sensitive accompaniment from Deutsch. They work here as truly collaborative partners. A match made in heaven, to borrow a cliché.

Listen to their "Morgen!" and you may never need to hear a soprano or the orchestrated version of that lied again!

Amazing singer

I recently bought this cd because I love the "Lieder' and music of R.Strauss.This singer is amazing,I gave up on ever finding a tenor of this quality.Kaufmann find's a different voice for every song,his heroic tenor can sound soft,exuberant ect.There is no one this day's who come's even close to this.I am tired of tenor's like Bostridge who has at best a thread for a voice ,or Florez,who goes on my nerves after three Arias,so it is good to have Kaufman around,am looking forward to many more recording's.I preordered his cd "Romantic Aries'.
Hopefully the record companies will not ruin his voice with a lot of Wagner.The critic find's his voice reminiscent of Wunderlich,what nonesense,just because Wunderlich is one of his idols (the greatest German tenor).
He is a first J.Kaufmann,not a second Wunderlich.