Absolutely gorgeous. You won't hear a better live performance of this cycle. He is in his prime here.

Prey did this same program at the 92nd street YMHA in New York just before this performance in Chicago. When he finished "Mein" the NY audience went crazy - quite literally - they applauded for about 5 minutes as he nailed it. I was lucky to have a stage seat on the edge of the stage in the first seat to Prey's left side. At 28 it seemed a miracle to me! He sang "Mein" slightly faster in NYC than here and the high F#s gleamed. I never heard him do lieder in NY again, though I did hear him do opera. Does anyone remember the late Wolfgang Anheisser? (sp). He died very young and would have been the successor to DFD and Prey.

Großartig singt hier Hermann Prey auch Fritz Wunderlich singt die Müllerin großartig!

@marianneseeberg7507

6 жыл бұрын

An Beiden ist nicht dran zu kommen. Ein Rudolf Schock kann da nicht mit halten. Das mache ich auch für die "Winterreise" geltend.

@sananton2821

3 жыл бұрын

@@marianneseeberg7507 Duhan

Seine Stimme - sein Charakter - seine Freundschaft mit Fritz Wunderlich - seine Treue - seine Unermüdlichkeit - sein Humor - seine männliche Schönheit!

Took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes. Vielen Dank, Schubert and Herr Prey.

Wonderful live performance. Gorgeously-nuanced phrasing, impeccable enunciation.

Thank you! My favorite baritone) Bravo, Herr Hermann!

One of the greatest barytones ever! Gone too soon.

Hermann Prey occupies a position in lieder singing somewhat similar to Leonard Warren in opera in that Prey's voice was characterized by extraordinary warmth and roundness with a great balance of ring in the sound throughout his range. Further, his handling of his passagio was consistently even and accomplished with such smoothness that it could be a challenge to detect it at times. His was one of the great voices of the twentieth century, and he had few peers in lieder. I had the opportunity to hear him sing this on my college campus in the 1970s. He was every bit as convincing live as he is here! What a fine artist!

Oh my, absolutely divine. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for posting from this great singer at his best Prey's interpretation of "Der Neugierige" is one of the greatest I have ever heard. So much inward feeling and outright beautiful singing.

Wunderschön gesungen!

A performance done well for a baritone who is challenged by issues of f and p

This is simply magnificent.

Estas voces nos elevan el espiritu a percepciones sublimes. Maravilloso baritono. Gracias

vielen dank !!!!!!!!

LOVE Hermann Prey & miss him. He sang some things (Italian opera, for one) better than Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. He was also a natural born actor, which the latter was not.

@erikascolovin6312

2 жыл бұрын

Hermann Prey sang wirklich schöner und Fritz Wunderlich.

Gorgeous !!!

thank you for posting indeed.

que vozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz impecable versión

Enorme Prey. Junto a Peter Schneider mi tenor favorito en el repertorio lideristico. Murió joven y, por tanto, y por su calidad, gracias por este homenaje merecido. Morgengruss es una joya de fraseo y sensibilidad.

@nicolasvaldes151

2 жыл бұрын

Perdón, Peter Schreier. Pifias del corrector.

Between Fischer-Diskau and Prey, all things considered, I choose Fischer-Diskau. However, Prey is wonderful and has this beautiful voice.

@eurabio

9 жыл бұрын

Ana Dias Ídem

@mckavitt

8 жыл бұрын

Non idem :-)

I think he sings Schubert songs the best!!!!

Maravilloso barítono. Gracias por quien lo colocó aquí. ¿Prey o Fischer-Dieskau? Difícil escoger. ESte me gusta más. ¡Gracias, Pedro Liendo, comunista, por dármelo a conocer!

Alkohol schadet dem gesamten Stimmapperat. Schade! Dieses Tembre war trotzdem aussergewöhnlich schön!

@moishemillerr

3 жыл бұрын

Ich weiß nicht, was Sie meinen. Prey hört man hier in Bestform...

@gerdawendl3842

3 жыл бұрын

Prey singt so klar und schön und das macht er doch immer, habe noch nie schlecht oder betrunken gehört oder Sie haben getrunken?

why choose between them?

@semiquavera2207

6 жыл бұрын

Why indeed? Hero-worship? Snobbery, peut-etre?

@Marg1312

2 жыл бұрын

@@semiquavera2207 Four years later but still worth commenting: I quite agree. Each recording has things that I love, and I'm sure that the artists themselves would agree.

@RichardWagner-hi4zn

2 ай бұрын

and why even those two? there were great baritones before them.

For my taste, this is quite slow in some pieces. It lacks somehow agility and fervour. Well, performing in a restrained way is also an art. Usually it's better to give less than too much... ;-)

Every now and then he seems a little out of tune!

@wisjoh1

8 жыл бұрын

quatsch .

@7H7GRm8jm4QCnjuQ

3 жыл бұрын

Nah it’s right, he was an alcoholic and near the end of his career had some problems with intonation that I was told were related to his alcoholism. Regardless, such an artist and one of the best recordings of the cycle

@moishemillerr

2 жыл бұрын

That is a fair point of criticism but I might add that first of all it is really not too bad (you can tell he isn't at all unaware of his pitch) and secondly, he always puts freeness of voice first unlike others who put intonation first but lack the freeness which I value much more than the latter. (And again, it isn't even that bad)

He is great but too often has an intonation issue.

Fischer who...?

@user-yf7ud9zs8k

Жыл бұрын

comarisons are odious, putting down a great artist (Prey would have agreed) even more so

Heard him many times both in opera and Lieder. The tone always seemed to me veiled and lacking in penetration. Not overly inventive in interpretation (every verse of the first song sung exactly the same), and most objectionable, he often sang slightly under the pitch. Many examples of this fault here. Some may find Fi-Di fussy, but I don’t think he sang a note in his entire career that was not perfectly tuned.

@moishemillerr

2 жыл бұрын

If you care a lot about intonation then Prey might not be the singer for you to listen to. But you'll be missing out on an incredible free, warm, falsetto dominant instrument possessed by a great artist that sung everything with heart.