Est 1923

Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Oehms

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 71

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: OC1833

OC1833. Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Alte Liebe (wds. Candidus) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Verzagen (wds. Lemcke) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Da unten im Tale Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Die Mainacht (wds. Hölty) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(9) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen (wds. Daumer) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ständchen (wds. Kugler) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Wiegenlied (wds. Scherer) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(16) Lieder, Movement: Waldseligkeit (wds. R Dehmel) (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(16) Lieder, Movement: No. 12, Totensprache (wds. Jacobowski) (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Der bescheidene Schäfer (wds. Weisse) (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Es schläft ein stiller Garten (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Schlummerlied (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Myrthen, Movement: No. 1, Widmung (wds. Rückert) Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
Myrthen, Movement: No. 25, Aus den östlichen Rosen (wds. Rückert) Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
(6) Gedichte und Requiem, Movement: No. 6, Der schwere Abend Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
(6) Gedichte und Requiem, Movement: Requiem Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
Lieder und Gesänge III, Movement: No. 5, Aufträge (wds. L'Egru) Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
Lieder-Album für die Jugend, Movement: Schneeglöckchen (wds. Rückert) Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
Lieder und Gesänge II, Movement: No. 2, Volksliedchen (wds. Rückert) Robert Schumann, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Robert Schumann, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 4, Die Georgine Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 6, Die Verschwiegenen Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 7, Die Zeitlose Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ruhe, meine Seele (wds. K Henckell: orch 1948) Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Morgen (wds. J H Mackay: orch 1897) Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(5) Lieder Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(5) Kleine Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Einerlei (wds. A von Arnim) Richard Strauss, Composer
Markus Schlemmer, Piano
Michaela Schuster, Mezzo soprano
Richard Strauss, Composer
The German mezzo Michaela Schuster is best known as an operatic animal, with a repertoire that includes big-hitting Wagner and Strauss roles. This recital from the Eppaner Liedsommer (recorded live, we are told, but without the slightest peep from the audience) shows a different side to her artistry, as well as displaying some pros and cons resulting from her stage career. The voice itself is remarkably powerful but hardly caressing on the ear; it takes quite a few breaths to keep nourished and at lower volumes is less than ideally steady. It’s a sort of voice that we don’t often hear on disc in song these days. Which is a shame, because Schuster is an instinctive artist and the interpretations themselves are wonderful. As a native speaker, her way with the German is totally natural and she inhabits the poetry completely. This often translates into musical performances of compelling sensitivity and moving intensity, while she is also able to turn on the folkish charm in Brahms’s ‘Da unten im Tale’ or in a melting ‘Wiegenlied’.

The programme itself is a fascinating mixture of the well and less well known, with each of the four composer-led groups covering, roughly, a trajectory from optimism to melancholy or liveliness to sleep; the Reger songs are especially well chosen and show him as very much capable of holding his head high in this exalted company. Although Schuster is excellent in the excited expressions of first love – her ‘Widmung’, for example, is urgent, her ‘Aufträge’ ardently impatient – she is perhaps at her best in the more thoughtful and fateful numbers, where Markus Schlemmer, a sensitive accompanist throughout, cleverly emphasises his piano’s lower range. Schumann’s ‘Der schwere Abend’ and ‘Requiem’ take on a powerful gravitas, as do Reger’s ‘Totensprache’ and Strauss’s ‘Ruhe, meine Seele!’. In ‘Befreit’ Schuster lacks the supreme control of, say, a Jessye Norman and needs a pause ahead of the song’s final, climactic ‘weinen’, but it is a deeply affecting performance which, like that of ‘Morgen’ itself, is suffused with just the right sense of gentle sadness.

It’s a shame that Oehms fails to provide translations to accompany the texts in the booklet, but don’t let that put you off this moving and rewarding recital.

OC1833. Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Alte Liebe (wds. Candidus)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Verzagen (wds. Lemcke)

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Da unten im Tale

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Die Mainacht (wds. Hölty)

(9) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen (wds. Daumer)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ständchen (wds. Kugler)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Wiegenlied (wds. Scherer)

(16) Lieder, Movement: Waldseligkeit (wds. R Dehmel)

(16) Lieder, Movement: No. 12, Totensprache (wds. Jacobowski)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Der bescheidene Schäfer (wds. Weisse)

Es schläft ein stiller Garten

Schlummerlied

Myrthen, Movement: No. 1, Widmung (wds. Rückert)

Myrthen, Movement: No. 25, Aus den östlichen Rosen (wds. Rückert)

(6) Gedichte und Requiem, Movement: No. 6, Der schwere Abend

(6) Gedichte und Requiem, Movement: Requiem

Lieder und Gesänge III, Movement: No. 5, Aufträge (wds. L'Egru)

Lieder-Album für die Jugend, Movement: Schneeglöckchen (wds. Rückert)

Lieder und Gesänge II, Movement: No. 2, Volksliedchen (wds. Rückert)

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 4, Die Georgine

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 6, Die Verschwiegenen

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 7, Die Zeitlose

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ruhe, meine Seele (wds. K Henckell: orch 1948)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Morgen (wds. J H Mackay: orch 1897)

(5) Lieder

(5) Kleine Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Einerlei (wds. A von Arnim)

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