The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook [Box set]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Artist), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Antonin Dvorak / Edvard Grieg (Composer), Adolf Jensen / Franz Liszt (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Nikolai Medtner (Composer), Felix Mendelssohn (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Geoffrey Parsons / Nicolai Medtner (Performer), Cyril Szalkiewicz (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Geoffrey Parsons / Nicolai Medtner, Cyril Szalkiewicz
• Composer: Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak / Edvard Grieg, Adolf Jensen / Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Nikolai Medtner, et al.
• Audio CD (January 16, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
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• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B000002S70
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,648 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A three-disc memorial from EMI to their greatest singer, September 23, 2005

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This review is from: The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook (Audio CD)

In a way this is a hard set to recommend. Schwarzkopf is superlative throughout, but since these are out-of-print or unrelased recordings, they take second place to her official recordings. EMI looked into their vaults to give her a 70th birthday tribute, and I snapped the set up immeidately. I can't say I go back to it that often, but it fills out Schwarzkopf's great legacy quite well in the field of lieder--no opera included--and the very late material, when her voice was very faded and starting to darken with age, is the most moving.