Track Listing

1. Funf Lieder, Op. 38: I Wish You Bliss
2. Funf Lieder, Op. 38: Wings
3. Funf Lieder, Op. 38: Old Spanish Song
4. Funf Lieder, Op. 38: Old English Song
5. Funf Lieder, Op. 38: My Mistress' Eyes
6. The Silent Town
7. In My Father's Garden
8. Mild Summer Night
9. With You I Am Safe
10. I Walk Among Flowers
11. Song Of The Clown, Op. 29: Come Away Death
12. Song Of The Clown, Op. 29: O Mistress Mine
13. Song Of The Clown, Op. 29: Adieu, Good Man Devil
14. Song Of The Clown, Op. 29: Hey, Robin!
15. Song Of The Clown, Op. 29: For The Rain, It Raineth Every Day
16. Lieder und Gesange: Spring Morning
17. Lieder und Gesange: Recollection
18. Lieder und Gesange: Hans And Grete
19. Lieder und Gesange: Serenade
20. Lieder und Gesange: Fantasy
21. Lieder und Gesange: To Make Naughty Children Good
22. Lieder und Gesange: I Walked With Joy
23. Lieder und Gesange: Over! Over!
24. Lieder und Gesange: Vivid Imagination (Girl)
25. Lieder und Gesange: On The Battlements At Strassburg
26. Lieder und Gesange: Relief In Summer
27. Lieder und Gesange: Parting And Absence
28. Lieder und Gesange: Never To Meet Again
29. Lieder und Gesange: Self - Confidence

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85500 in Music
• Released on: 1997-04-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

From Amazon.com
Luckily, the current profusion of mezzo-sopranos doesn't leave one jaded to talented newcomers such as Angelika Kirchschalger. Besides looking like a fashion model, this young Austrian singer has a voice of such lustrous perfection that she would be as boring as Olga Borodina sometimes is were there not such an interesting musical intelligence at work. The program is all rarities and far less daunting than it appears. The Mahler songs are early, folk influenced pieces; though they have their dark edges, they aren't nearly as neurotic as some of his later work. Songs by his wife, Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler, reflect a highly adventurous musical spirit who had yet to find her individual voice. The Op. 38 Korngold songs remind us of the complex harmonic language toward which both composers were headed. Kirchschlager is close to ideal, and her German is flawless. More surprising, so is her English in the premiere recording of Korngold's disarmingly straightforward Songs of the Clown inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Kirchschlager sings alternately with soaring rapture and hearty good humor. --David Patrick Stearns