This is one McCormack selection that I've never seen on any CD reissue. It is truly a haunting and powerful piece that I'm proud to have in my own collection.
Dear Mark32646, Do you have the original recording? I am curious about the translations McCormack is singing - is there any attribution? Thankyou for posting !!
The only information I can find is as follows: Organ Grinder, The (Der Leiermann) (The Hurdy Gurdy Man)("Der Leiermann") (from (Wilhelm Müller/Franz Schubert, D. 911, No. 24) CVE 49213-1, -2, -3 (partial matrix) (28 November 1928)
He uses the same translation as Harry Plunket-Greene. Possibly by Fox-Strangeways whose English translation of Schubert were pretty standard at the time.
The first word Plunket-Greene sings is “Yonder”; the first word McCormack sings is “There”. And there numerous other verbal differences. So I don’t think they are using the same translation.
A pity he did not have piano accompaniment here, and with the other Schubert items made at this time. His Brahms and Wolf songs are much better with piano. And the snatch of Ungeduld between the two songs is most inartistic.
Not good. Its not the "real" Schubert in any other language than German. And Mc Cormick was no "Liedersänger." He was much better when he sang Irish folk songs.
@@jamesupton4996 And his Hugo Wolf is exemplary - Walter Legge roped him in for his pioneering Hugo Wolf Edition - th-cam.com/video/4hLgT8hIV1c/w-d-xo.html And his Herr, was tragst der Boden hier? was singled out by John Steane as a perfect rendition.
This is one McCormack selection that I've never seen on any CD reissue. It is truly a haunting and powerful piece that I'm proud to have in my own collection.
Thank you for this.This is the first time I have heard this recording.
Take the point about the original language ... but you CAN understand this instantaneously. Thanks to JM's clarity.
I don't understand. His Abschied is a completely different piece of music from Schubert's...
Do we know who arranged the piano parts for orchestra?
Dear Mark32646,
Do you have the original recording?
I am curious about the translations McCormack is singing - is there any attribution?
Thankyou for posting !!
The only information I can find is as follows: Organ Grinder, The (Der Leiermann) (The Hurdy Gurdy Man)("Der Leiermann") (from (Wilhelm Müller/Franz Schubert, D. 911, No. 24)
CVE 49213-1, -2, -3 (partial matrix) (28 November 1928)
He uses the same translation as Harry Plunket-Greene. Possibly by Fox-Strangeways whose English translation of Schubert were pretty standard at the time.
The first word Plunket-Greene sings is “Yonder”; the first word McCormack sings is “There”. And there numerous other verbal differences. So I don’t think they are using the same translation.
Probably Teddy Schneider.
A pity he did not have piano accompaniment here, and with the other Schubert items made at this time. His Brahms and Wolf songs are much better with piano. And the snatch of Ungeduld between the two songs is most inartistic.
I don't like these English language versions, they lose their haunting depth.
Not good. Its not the "real" Schubert in any other language than German. And Mc Cormick was no "Liedersänger." He was much better when he sang Irish folk songs.
He made a few really powerful lieder recordings. His Strauss Allerseelen is incredible. And The sanger's trost - by Schumann I think.
@@jamesupton4996 And his Hugo Wolf is exemplary - Walter Legge roped him in for his pioneering Hugo Wolf Edition - th-cam.com/video/4hLgT8hIV1c/w-d-xo.html
And his Herr, was tragst der Boden hier? was singled out by John Steane as a perfect rendition.