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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An award-winning Strauss recital,
By Santa Fe Listener (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
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This review is from: Strauss: Lieder ~ Kaufmann (Audio CD)
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.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing singer,
This review is from: Strauss: Lieder ~ Kaufmann (Audio CD)
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.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Who needs sopranos when you've got these guys?,
By Ben Brouwer (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strauss: Lieder ~ Kaufmann (Audio CD)
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!
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