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Oh, no, not Dein ist mein ganzes herz plus English version

Rob Pollock | 01/06/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"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?"

High in charm but low in volume.

John Austin | Kangaroo Ground, Australia | 03/20/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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."