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"THE UNPUBLISHED EMI RECORDINGS 1955-64".(Review)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [] "THE UNPUBLISHED EMI RECORDINGS 1955-64" Songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Mozart et al. With Gieseking, Moore, piano. Texts and translations. Testament SBT 1206
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her record-producer/husband, Walter Legge, were such perfectionists that for us mere mortals, four decades later, it is hard to pinpoint why the material on this new CD was ever rejected. A nanosecond digression from pitch, a fudged rhythm or a tempo the tiniest bit too fast or too slow, perhaps. The decade from 1955-64 was in fact prime time for the Schwarzkopf-Legge recording collaborations: the years of Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni with Giulini conducting, Die Fledermaus, Falstaff and Der Rosenkavalier with Karajan.
The earliest performance on the present disc, limited to lieder and song, is Mozart's "Un moto di gioia," actually a delicious outtake from Schwarzkopf's LP of Mozart lieder with Walter Gieseking -- possibly expunged because it is not really a song but a shortened version of an alternate aria for Nozze di Figaro. There are seven songs by Schubert, in which the singer colors her voice and inflects each word to give it meaning in context. She truly sounds like a bird in "Die Vogel," then becomes the embodiment of tranquility (by means of a perfect legato line) in "Du bist die Ruh." Yet legato is not an end ...
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