‘I am an EU singer’, Hermann Prey always said about himself. However, by that he did not mean so much his citizenship of a country of the European Union but the fact that he felt at home in the fields of ‘E’ and ‘U’, i.e. in ‘serious’ and entertainment music alike.

For Prey, this distinction never existed, but only the issue of the quality of music, and he found this not only in the opera and Lied, but also in the operetta, the musical and the well-made hit.

For forty-six years, from the time of his first commitment in Wiesbaden in 1952 onwards, Prey always convinced his audience: in opera, art and folksong, operetta and musical alike. This collection of 5 CDs shows us his fascinatingly wide range of repertoire and interpretation.

Contents:
CD 1: The Opera Singer (1)
LORTZING: Der Wildschütz
MOZART: Die Zauberflöte KV620
NESSLER: Der Trompeter von Säckingen
WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg · Tannhäuser

CD 2: The Opera Singer (2)
LORTZING: Zar und Zimmermann
KREUTZER: Das Nachtlager in Granada

CD 3: The Lied Interpreter
BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte, op.98 · Adelaide, op.46 · 6 Lieder nach Christian Fürchtegott Gellert op.48
BRAHMS: Deutsche Volkslieder · German Folksongs
LOEWE: 4 Ballads after poems by J W v Goethe

CD 4: The Great Berlin Revue
· Das ist der Frühling in Berlin
· Das macht die Berliner Luft
· Untern Linden, untern Linden
· Schlösser, die im Monde liegen
· Das Lied von der Drummen Lanke
· Heimweh nach dem Kurfurstendamm

CD 5: Hermann Prey & Paul Kuhn - Evergreens
· Bel Ami
· Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein
· Im Café de la Paix in Paris
· Unter einem Regenschirm am Abend
· Man musste Klavier spielen konnen
· Sag' beim Abschied leise Servus