Richard Tauber: Favourites, Vol. 1

Franz Doelle (Artist), Richard Heuberger (Artist), Walter Jurmann (Artist), Franz Lehar (Artist), Richard Tauber (Artist), Sigmund Romberg (Artist), Gioachino Rossini (Artist), Rudolf Sieczynski (Artist), Robert Stolz (Artist), Johann II Strauss (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B00005557O
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,471 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

2. Im Prater blüh'n wieder die Bäume

3. Frasquita: Serenade

4. Zigeunerliebe: Mariska

5. Der Opernball: Geh'n wir in's Chambre separée

6. Die lustige Witwe: Lippen schweigen

7. Die lustige Witwe: Es lebt eine Vilja...Vilja, o Vilja

8. Student Prince: Serenade

9. Wenn der weisse Flieder wieder blüht

10. Das Lied der Liebe: Du bist mein Traum

11. Lied und langsamer Waltzer: Das alte Lied

12. Les soirées musicales: no 8, La danza

13. Paganini: Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküsst

14. Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume

15. Was weisst denn du, wie ich verliebt bin

16. La serenata

17. Das Land des Lächelns: Immer nur lächeln

18. Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh, no, not Dein ist mein ganzes herz plus English version, January 5, 2005

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Rob Pollock - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Tauber: Favourites, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Why must record companies endlessly churn out the same familiar stuff, when Tauber recorded many hundreds of songs and operatic items?

And, as another reviewer has justly indicated, at least make the CD contents audible. It's just too irritating to have to keep altering the volume because some engineer didn't bother to get the level right in the first place.

Isn't it possible for recording companies to set a common standard of volume level, particularly when the originals were recorded in a constricted dynamic?

Okay, apart from the rant, Tauber still sounds fine, but some less stale material would be nice. How about next time including some of his radio and stage recordings, such as excerpts from his final Covent Garden performance as Don Ottavio?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High in charm but low in volume., March 20, 2003

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John Austin "[e-mail]" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Tauber: Favourites, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Reissues of recordings by the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber are beginning to feature in the Naxos catalogue. This CD presents 18 of them and runs for 60 minutes. Of the eight Lehar items, four are sung in English, and Lehar himself is the conductor in another of them. The recordings date from 1927 to 1939. Rarities include two little songs in which Tauber provides his own piano accompaniment.

Everything Tauber attempted gets my attention. I don’t wish to hear again, however the adaptation of the Strauss waltz “G’shichten aus dem Wiener Wald” that is included here. I eagerly await a reissue of something called “Love Lost Forever More” which featured in “Blossom Time”, one of Tauber’s films.

David Lennick’s transfers are satisfactory, but the volume level is very low.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High in charm but low in volume., March 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Richard Tauber: Favourites, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Reissues of recordings by the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber are beginning to feature in the Naxos catalogue. This CD presents 18 of them and runs for 60 minutes. Of the eight Lehar items, four are sung in English, and Lehar himself is the conductor in another of them. The recordings date from 1927 to 1939. Rarities include two little songs in which Tauber provides his own piano accompaniment.

Everything Tauber attempted gets my attention. I don't wish to hear again, however the adaptation of the Strauss waltz "G'shichten aus dem Wiener Wald" that is included here. I eagerly await a reissue of something called "Love Lost Forever More" which featured in "Blossom Time", one of Tauber's films.

David Lennick's transfers are satisfactory, but the volume level is very low.