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German opera soprano
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2024-01-29 14:59:14
Schubery, Mendelssohn, 2024
[…] our library – he remains one of the most often performed composers. His life was not eventful, his music was sublime, so here’s one of his songs: An die Musik, that is, To Music that Schubert composed in March of 1817 (he was twenty). Nothing can be simpler and more beautiful. We could not select a favorite recording, there are too many excellent ones, so we present three, all sung by the Germans: soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with the great pianist, Edwin Sicher, released in 1958 (here); the 1967 recording made by the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with Roger Moore (here); and Fritz Wunderlich, an amazing tenor who also died at 35, accompanied by Hubert Giesen in a 1967 recording (here). You can decide for yourself which one you like better. As for Mendelssohn, his most famous “songs” were not vocal butfor piano solo:Songs without Words. Still, he also composed “real” songs […]
2024-01-29 03:49:02
Franz Schubert - An die MusikElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)Edwin Fischer (Piano)
2022-10-13 12:51:53
On this day in 1964 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.
2022-04-16 05:30:00
Otto Klemperer with Peter Pears, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Nikolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Chr
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