How can you go wrong with a CD that opens with a song about Elfin Fairies?

You can’t.

I swear, you just can’t.

Once again, we have Irish songs sung in English, performed by some of the best musicians in the world:

Barbara Emilia Schedel soprano

Kerstin Wagner alto

Daniel Schreiber tenor

Daniel Raschinsky baritone

Sachiko Kobayashi violin

Chihiro Saito cello

Michael Wagner piano

Although today’s CD features the incomparable Daniel Schreiber (tenor), I have to take a few points off for the alto. That’s a vocal range I never do warm up to.

So, whereas yesterday’s CD was a Favorite from start to finish, today’s CD is only good occasionally. For example, everything Daniel Schreiber sings (in whole or in part) is pure gold:

The Farewell Song (Track 3)
Put round the bright wine (Track 6)
Save me from the grave and wise (Track 8)
Oh! would I were but that sweet linnet! (Track 9)
The hero may perish (Track 10)
The Soldier in a Foreign Land (Track 11)
He promised me at parting (Track 12)

I swear, Daniel Schreiber has the voice of an angel.

The above features perhaps half of the songs to which I listened this morning.