Notes and Editorial Reviews
This recital of songs from the 1979 Salzburg Festival is a delight. Walter Berry was a baritone known and loved less for the beauty of his voice than for its expressiveness and the manner in which he colored it to suit whatever text he sang. This program begins with four easy-to-take, folksy songs by Mendelssohn. After Berry gets us comfortable, he instantly changes the mood with three despair-filled songs by Hugo Wolf. More dreariness follows in a quartet of songs by Pfitzner. But the program's real meat-and-potatos comes with six songs from Mahler's Das Knaben Wunderhorn, a sequence that lasts as long as the three previous song sets and takes us through all of those emotions and more. Berry is known for his Mahler and it's easy to see
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why: Like the great composer, he can charm us and disturb us at will, inviting us into St. Anthony's world as wholly as that of the soldier. Encores by Mahler and Wolf round out the program. Rudolf Buchbinder accompanies aggressively when needed (in "Revelge", for instance), but can murmur as well. The sound is excellent.
--Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com
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Works on This Recording
1.
Songs (6), Op. 71: no 3, An die Entfernte by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2.
Songs (6), Op. 71: no 6, Nachtlied by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
3.
Songs (6), Op. 71: no 5, Auf der Wanderschaft by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
4.
Songs (6), Op. 86: no 6, Altdeutches Frühlingslied by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
5.
Goethe Lieder: no 1, Harfenspieler I "Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt" by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
6.
Goethe Lieder: no 2, Harfenspieler II "An die Türen will ich schleichen" by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
7.
Goethe Lieder: no 3, Harfenspieler III "Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass" by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
8.
Lieder (7), Op. 2: no 2, Ist der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau? by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888-1889; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
9.
Lieder (5), Op. 7: no 1, Hast du von den Fischerkindern by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1888-1889; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
10.
Lieder (3), Op. 10: no 3, Zum Abschied meiner Tochter by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
11.
Lieder (5), Op. 26: no 2, Nachts by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
12.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 13, Revelge by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
13.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 9, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
14.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 14, Der Tamboursg'sell by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
15.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 4, Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
16.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 6, Des Antonius von Padua by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano),
Walter Berry (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
17.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: no 10, Lob des hohen Verstandes by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano),
Walter Berry (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892-1898; Hamburg, Germany
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
18.
Lieder und Gesänge, vol 3: no 5, Selbstgefühl by Gustav Mahler
Performer:
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano),
Walter Berry (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887-1890; Budapest, Hungary
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
19.
Mörike Lieder: no 5, Der Tambour by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
20.
Spanisches Liederbuch: no 17, Wer sein holdes Lieb verloren by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Walter Berry (Baritone),
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
21.
Spanisches Liederbuch: no 21, Herz, versage nicht geschwind by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Rudolf Buchbinder (Piano),
Walter Berry (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 08/17/1979
Venue: Live Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria
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