Daniel Behle, Oliver Schnyder – Richard Strauss Songs CD

A much welcome recital of well-known and lesser-known Strauss Lieder by Oliver Schnyder and Daniel Behle, Opus Klassik prize winner and “Singer of the Year 2020”. The album offers a selection of atmospheric songs such as ”Winterweihe”, “Winterliebe”, “Waldseligkeit”, “Traum durch die Dämmerung” and “Morgenrot” which are all partly nature-related or about interpersonal relationships. Among two rarely performed cycles, the present album offers another remarkable rarity in the form of the song “Der Schmetterling” (The Butterfly) based on a text by Hermann Hesse. The song does not appear in any catalogue raisonné of the composer’s works and was completely unknown even to proven Strauss experts and specialists…