Schwarzkopf, Seefried - Duos De Dvorak, Monteverdi, Carissimi, Strauss

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Free Music Review: Schwarzkopf and Seefried in harmony.
Hit: 4 Stars

Almost all the recordings they made together in partnership are gathered together on this 76-minute CD. The two great German sopranos are in pristine vocal shape - surprising in the case of the "Rosenkavalier" sequence, recorded in the freezing, starvation conditions of post-war Vienna. It and the Humperdinck duet, all nine and a half minutes of it, provide great enjoyment here, not least because of the splendid accompaniments directed by Karajan and Josef Krips. The doyen of accompanist Gerald Moore in the Monteverdi and Carissini items also provides splendid accompaniments, but this is not the way we want to hear C17th Italian music nowadays. The artists seem more comfortable with the Dvorak Moravian duets.

These recordings from 1946-1955, all directed by Walter Legge, were digitally remastered in 1988. The sound quality of the duets with piano, never brilliant in their day, remains lack-lustre.

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