Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1915-2006 [Box Set] [Box set]

Karl Schmitt-Walter (Performer), Hugo [Composer] Wolf (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Engelbert [Classical] Humperdinck (Composer), Franz Lehar (Composer), Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Christoph Willibald Gluck (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Carl Loewe (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Karl Schmitt-Walter
• Composer: Hugo [Composer] Wolf, Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard [1] Strauss, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al.
• Audio CD (January 16, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B000JUBA2S
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Elfenlied ('Bei Nacht im Dorf der Wächter reif'), song for voice & piano (Mörike Lieder)

2. Die Spröde ('An dem reinsten Frühlingsmorgen'), song for voice & piano (Goethe Lieder)

3. Die Bekehrte ('Bei dem Glanz der Abendröte'), song for voice & piano (Goethe Lieder)

4. Mignon I ('HeiĂź mich nicht reden'), song for voice & piano (Goethe Lieder)

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Disc: 2

1. Die Vögel ('Wie lieblich und fröhlich'), song for voice & piano, D. 691 (Op. posth. 172/6)

2. Liebhaber in allen Gestalten ('Ich wollt', ich wär' ein Fisch'), song for voice & piano, D. 558

3. Heidenröslein ('Sah ein Knab...'), song for voice & piano, D. 257 (Op. 3/3)

4. Die Forelle ('In einem Bächlein helle'), song for voice & piano, D. 550 (Op. 32)

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Disc: 3

1. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Porgi, amor

2. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Ei parte...Per pietà, ben mio

3. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: In quali eccessi...Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata

4. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Libera me

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Disc: 4

1. Bist du bei mir, aria arranged for voice & continuo (after Gottfried Stölzel), BWV 508

2. La rencontre imprévue (or, 'The Pilgrim of Mecca'), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 32: Act 3. Einem Bach, der fließt

3. Wonne der Wehmut, song for voice & piano, Op. 83/1

4. Kleiner Haushalt, lyric fantasia for voice & piano, Op. 71

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Disc: 5

1. Cantata No. 199, 'Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut,' BWV 199 (BC A120): Recitative. Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut. Aria. Stumme Seufzer stil

2. Cantata No. 199, 'Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut,' BWV 199 (BC A120): Recitative. Doch Gott muß mir gnädig sein. Aria. Tief begückt und

3. Cantata No. 199, 'Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut,' BWV 199 (BC A120): Recitative. Auf diese Schmerzens Reu. Chorale. Ich, dein betrübtes

4. Mass in B minor, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, BWV 232 (BC E1): Christe eleison

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Customer Reviews

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24 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, but..., August 4, 2007

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Frank G. Feldman (Fair Lawn, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1915-2006 [Box Set] (Audio CD)

Who can compare with her? Kiri Te Kanawa is a poor man's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renee Fleming a poor man's Kiri Te Kanawa... Supremely intelligent, ravishing sound, the pinnacle of German lieder singing and the few operatic roles in which she reigned supreme. And yet, and yet... AN ACTRESS. Listen carefully and you'll hear the mannerisms and overcompensations of the silent film stars in her intrepretations, i.e., the calculations, the endless rhetoric. She was both divine and a overly-practiced master of deceit. This is something quite beyond the simple-minded criticism of her as an ice princess. As an artist, she was utterly magnificent yet ruthlessly cruel and narcissistic in becoming so. What a problem this creates for the listener! Not unlike the problem of Wagner the composer, the ACTOR, another master of deceit, who, needless to say, played it out on a far vaster canvas. Listen long and hard enough and her CHARACTER peeks out from the beneath the CHARACTERS she is portraying in song and aria, as does his. It's the Meryl Streep conundrum. Who can hold a candle to her? And yet her chilly interior blows that candle out after you've listened long and hard enough and figured out the trick, the ruse, the deception. Compare Kathleen Ferrier. No trick there. A deep, generous and noble soul. Yes, Virginia, music DOES have a moral character.

4 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Schwartkoopf, March 9, 2007

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John A. Hayes "John Hayes" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1915-2006 [Box Set] (Audio CD)

Very rapid turn around. Item received in brand new shape and gave top satisfaction