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Barry McDaniel: Recital | Audite AUDITE23426

Barry McDaniel: Recital

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE23426

Barcode: 4022143234261

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 6th February 2012

Contents

Artists

Barry McDaniel (baritone)
Hertha Klust (piano)
Aribert Reimann (piano)
Eberhard Finke (cello)
Karlheinz Zoeller (flute)

Works

Debussy, Claude

Le Promenoir des deux amants

Duparc, Henri

Chanson triste
Extase
Lamento
Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Phidyle
Soupir

Ravel, Maurice

Chansons madecasses (3)

Schubert, Franz

Auflosung, D807
Dass sie hier gewesen!, D775
Der Einsame, D800
Der Jungling und der Tod, D545
Der Winterabend, D938
Fahrt zum Hades, D526
Fischerweise, D881
Herbst, D945
Sprache der Liebe, D410
Uber Wildemann, D884

Schumann, Robert

Des Sangers Fluch, op.139
» no.4 Provencalisches Lied
Gedichte (6) und Requiem, op.90
Lieder (5), op.40
» no.4 Der Spielmann
» no.5 Verratene Liebe
Lieder und Gesange IV (5), op.96
» no.1 Nachtlied
» no.3 Ihre Stimme
Minnespiel, op.101
» no.4 Mein schoner Stern!
Myrthen, op.25
» no.15 Aus den hebraischen Gesangen

Wolf, Hugo

Morike-Lieder
» no.5 Der Tambour
» no.9 Nimmersatte Liebe
» no.11 An eine Aeolsharfe
» no.36 Lebe wohl
» no.37 Heimweh
» no.53 Abschied

Artists

Barry McDaniel (baritone)
Hertha Klust (piano)
Aribert Reimann (piano)
Eberhard Finke (cello)
Karlheinz Zoeller (flute)

About

The American baritone Barry McDaniel was one of the outstanding singers of the post-war era. As a successful opera singer and Lieder interpreter, he enjoyed a long and eventful career, both in Germany and abroad. Despite numerous performances and many recordings for radio and television, he nonetheless remained largely unnoticed by the media, partly because his name almost vanished in the shadow of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who was five years his senior. Unjustly so, since the two singers were equals as artists, albeit with different characters.

Today, Barry McDaniel is hardly mentioned in specialist literature and one searches in vain for CDs, since until now, recordings from radio archives have not been phonographically processed. However, Audite now presents a première double CD of Lieder sung by Barry McDaniel. These studio recordings from the archives of Radio Berlin-Brandenburg (formally Sender Freies Berlin) were made between 1963 and 1974 with Hertha Klust and Aribert Reimann as accompanists.

This selection of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Duparc, Ravel and Debussy reveals diverse facets of McDaniel’s artistic personality. His interpretations are characterised by an interleaving of knowledge and naivety, feeling and craftsmanship, expression and impeccable singing. Apart from his immaculate technique, his accent-free German is particularly remarkable.

Barry McDaniel moved from the USA to Germany in 1953 in order to further his studies. He then gave his first song recitals, together with Hermann Reutter, and later began a career as an opera singer. In 1961 he was engaged at the newly re-opened Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he remained for thirty-seven years. At the same time, he gave guest performances at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Frankfurt Opera and the Munich Opera Festival, as well as broadcasting for radio and television.

In addition, Barry McDaniel gave numerous song recitals, in such places as Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Hanover, Brunswick and Berlin, and including, in the latter city, the first ever song recital at the newly built Philharmonie in 1963.

Today, the 81-year-old baritone declares: “Whatever I sing, I have to believe in it.” That is exactly how these recordings sound.

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