Piotr Beczala, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz – Heart’s Delight – The Songs of Richard Tauber (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Piotr Beczala, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz – Heart’s Delight – The Songs of Richard Tauber (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:34 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

It is mostly operetta enthusiasts who remember the name of the monocle-wearing Austrian tenor Richard Tauber today, and that’s why this release by Polish tenor Piotr Beczala is welcome. Tauber was an enormously popular figure in many countries, singing in many languages, from the 1910s through the end of his life, unhappily exiled from his native Austria due to Jewish ancestry, after World War II. It’s not clear whether Tauber’s languages included Polish, but the program here involves German, English, and Italian. Beczala’s German is excellent; his English is slightly accented, but probably less so than Tauber’s own, and there are no distractions to impede the enjoyment of Tauber’s biggest hit, You Are My Heart’s Delight, from Franz Lehár’s The Land of Smiles. That and a few other similar numbers set the pattern for operetta and later film musical composers who tried to tailor their big numbers to Tauber’s strengths. The composers here range from the well known (Lehár) to the moderately known (Emmerich Kálmán) to the all-but-forgotten (Rudolf Sieczynski and several of the film film composers), but all the music seems of a piece, and in a style consistent enough to be familiar. That style straddled the divide between operetta and popular song; it is extravagantly romantic, almost strangely so from a modern perspective, filled with the rhythms of the waltz and other popular dances, but exploding often enough into the upper tenor register to give the singer some star quality. Beczala, something of a connoisseur’s tenor up to this point, handles the high Bs nicely, and there is just a sense of fun about the whole thing that puts across something of what Tauber must have been like. You get an aural whiff of Tauber himself in track 7, Du bist die Welt für mich (You are the world to me), which he also composed; this could have had an odd necro-duet feel, but it is tastefully handled, with the Tauber excerpt, recorded in 1934, coming in at the end as a sort of memory. An enjoyable major-label debut for operetta lovers.

Tracklist:
01. Duncan Riddell & Piotr Beczala & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz – Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns-Sung In English / Act 2-You Are My Heart’s Delight (03:27)
02. Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Piotr Beczala – Sieczynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume-Arranged By Paul Bateman (04:28)
03. Lukasz Borowicz & Anna Netrebko & Piotr Beczala & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Duncan Riddell – Lehár: The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) / Act 2-Lippen schweigen (03:20)
04. Piotr Beczala & Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Kálmán: Gräfin Mariza-Operetta In 3 Acts / Act 1-Komm Zigany (05:38)
05. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz & Duncan Riddell & Piotr Beczala – Lehár: Paganini / Act 2-Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss (03:17)
06. Piotr Beczala & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz – Kálmán: Gräfin Mariza-Operetta In 3 Acts / Act 1-Wenn es Abend wird-Grüß mir mein Wien (05:35)
07. Richard Tauber & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz & Duncan Riddell & Piotr Beczala – Tauber: Der Singende Traum-Arranged By Paul Bateman-Du bist die Welt für mich (03:59)
08. Piotr Beczala & Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Stolz: Das Lied ist aus (04:04)
09. Duncan Riddell & Berlin Comedian Harmonists & Lukasz Borowicz & Piotr Beczala & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Lehár: Giuditta / Act 1-Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert (03:18)
10. Avi Avital & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz & Piotr Beczala & Duncan Riddell – Stolz: O mia bella Napoli (04:58)
11. Piotr Beczala & Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Stolz: Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau’n (02:51)
12. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Lukasz Borowicz & Piotr Beczala – Ralph: Ich küsse Ihre Hand Madam-Arranged By Paul Bateman (02:33)
13. Piotr Beczala & Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Berlin Comedian Harmonists – Romberg: The Student Prince-Arranged By Paul Bateman-Overhead The Moon Is Beaming (03:33)
14. Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Piotr Beczala – Stolz: Ich liebe Dich (04:40)
15. Lukasz Borowicz and Piotr Beczala and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – C. Böhm: Still wie die Nacht, Op.326, No.27-Arranged By Paul Bateman (02:50)
16. Piotr Beczala & Lukasz Borowicz & Duncan Riddell & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns / Act 2-Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (03:24)
17. Lukasz Borowicz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Piotr Beczala – Stolz: Brunetki, blondynki (01:32)

Personnel:
Piotr Beczala, Tenor
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Daniela Fally, vocals
Avi Avital, mandoline
Berlin Comedian Harmonists
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz, conductor

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