Wolf: Lieder Recital (1958) [Live]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Artist), Hugo Wolf (Composer), Gerald Moore (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Gerald Moore
• Composer: Hugo Wolf
• Audio CD (September 14, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B000025K5J
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,358 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A vintage recital from the greatest Wolf singer, September 17, 2005

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This review is from: Wolf: Lieder Recital (1958) (Audio CD)

Everything about the lieder of Hugo Wolf suited Schwarzkopf perfectly--both were urbane, refined, ultra-self-conscious artists. She gave summer song recitals with Gerald Moore every season at Salzzburg through the Fifties, and all are great treasures. This one is devoted entirely to Wolf, which is a bit like a whole dinner of caviar, but one can't complain--great artistry is displayed throughout.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of All Lieder Recitals, November 16, 2011

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Tony Consiglio (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wolf: Lieder Recital (1958) (Audio CD)

I have most (about 20) of Schwarzkopf's stage and studio recitals of lieder and love them all, even the few that in places justify her critics' complaints of cloyingness and manneredness. 6 or 7 of these (especially the Wolf recitals) rate absolutely sublime, with incomparable jewels of wonder and perfection. But THIS, the 1958 Salzburg recital, takes pride of place among them all. It is the most consistently wondrous and perfect of any lieder recital I have ever heard. Her voice never sounded fresher, clearer, lighter, freer, truer, or more flexible and responsive. The energy never flags or overreaches. The emotion never takes a false step. Given the extraordinary variety of emotion and rhetorical stance in these songs, that is saying quite a lot.