Strauss: Four Last Songs/12 Orchestral Songs
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Composer: Richard StraussConductor: George Szell
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Robert Heger
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Performer: Edith Peinemann
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-01-12
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Four Last Songs, Op. Posth.: Fruhling
- Four Last Songs, Op. Posth.: September
- Four Last Songs, Op. Posth.: Beim Schlafengehem
- Four Last Songs, Op. Posth.: Im Abendrot
- 12 Songs: Mutterandelei, Op. 43, No. 2
- 12 Songs: Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Zueignung, Op. 10, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Freundliche Vision, Op. 48, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Die Heiligen Drei Konige, Op. 56, No. 6
- 12 Songs: Rube, Meine Seele, Op. 27, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Meinem Kinde, Op. 37, No. 3
- 12 Songs: Wiegenlied, Op. 41, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4
- 12 Songs: Das Bachlein, Op. 88, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Die Rosenbande, Op. 36, No. 1
- 12 Songs: Winterweihe, Op. 48, No. 4
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Free Music Review: A wonder, do not hesitate!
Hit: 5 Stars
This record gives some of the best examples of Dame Schwarzkopf's art.
Everything on this disc is of the greatest beauty and intelligence. Buy it if you don't know why Mme Schwarzkopf was so famous!
I must however state, after listening through a great many versions of "Vier Letzte Lieder" (yes, Jessey Norman's too) that the best recording of this masterpiece comes from Elisabeth S?derstr?m, CBE, on an EMI record from 1982, nla, and never reissued on CD. EMI, please.
Perhaps a bit surprising Birgit Nilsson's version also ranks high on the list. It is for sale know, buy it and compare! Listening to Mme Nilsson's version is to enter another sphere where calmness and serenity reigns.
Strauss: Four Last Songs/12 Orchestral Songs Poster
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was one of those singers whom one either loves or hates. She was a "stylist," who inflected every phrase, every note in her urge to communicate what she considered to be the meaning of the text. Others feel that the only thing she communicated was her own need to impress people with her ability to communicate, and I believe she often forgot the difference between art and artfulness. Be that as it may, she was an outstanding Strauss singer, and her performance of the Four Last Songs, in particular, is legendary. Of course, having George Szell on the podium doesn't hurt either. He insures that the music shows the singer in the best possible light. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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