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2024-01-29 14:59:14
Schubery, Mendelssohn, 2024
[…] 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 – not as many as Schubert, of course, who wrote about 600 – and some of them are wonderful. Here, for example, is Gruss (Greeting), a […]
2024-01-29 03:51:01
Franz Schubert - An die MusikFritz Wunderlich (Tenor)Hubert Giesen (Piano)
2022-10-10 14:19:21
[…] And finally, several singers: Anna Netrebko, who’s been in the media quite a bit lately, not because of her singing – she hasn’t been doing much of that, being temporarily banned from the Met and several European stages – but because of her perceived closeness to Vladimir Putin who is conducting a murderous war in Ukraine; she turned 51 on September 18th. And two of our all-time favorite (and very different) tenors, the German Fritz Wunderlich, who excelled in Mozart and Schubert, born on September 26th of 1930, and Luciano Pavarotti, on October 12th of 1935.
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