Schubert: Lieder & Moments musicaux

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Many young and not-so-young singers can't abide Schwarkopf's interpretative style, which is strikingly at odds with the straightforward readings so often heard today. Playing devil's advocate,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5674942
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Références
Length: 67 minutes

Schubert: An die Musik D547

Work length2:44

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$1.70

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 Oct 1952/No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Im Frühling, D882

Work length4:32

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 Oct 1952. No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Wehmut, D772 (Collin)

Work length3:01

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 Oct 1952/No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)

Work length4:51

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952/Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Das Lied im Grünen, D917

Work length4:34

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Work length3:29

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Nähe des Geliebten, D162

Work length3:18

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Die junge Nonne, D828

Work length4:51

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: An Sylvia, D891

Work length3:07

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 studio Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774

Work length3:19

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Studio Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Nachtviolen D752 (Mayrhofer)

Work length2:51

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 studio, Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe)

Work length2:14

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1952-10-07
Recording Venue: 4-7 October 1952. No.1 Studio, Abbey Road Studios, London

Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94

Work length24:25

$7.80

$10.20

Edwin Fischer (piano)
Recorded: 1950-05-18
Recording Venue: 18th May 1950/No.3 Studio, Abbey Road

No. 1 in C

Track length4:28

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$1.70

No. 2 in A Flat

Track length6:10

$1.30

$1.70

No. 3 in F Minor

Track length1:40

$1.30

$1.70

No. 4 in C Sharp Minor

Track length4:17

$1.30

$1.70

No. 5 in F Minor

Track length1:16

$1.30

$1.70

No. 6 in A Flat

Track length6:34

$1.30

$1.70

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2010

Many young and not-so-young singers can't abide Schwarkopf's interpretative style, which is strikingly at odds with the straightforward readings so often heard today. Playing devil's advocate, one can understand the nature of the complaints about her interventionist approach, her occasional distortion of vowel sounds and a general approach that William Mann once described as 'verschmuckt' (bejewelled). You may judge such views, for instance, in a song like Auf dem Wasser, where not a phrase is left to speak for itself; compare it with the natural and simple reading of her contemporary Irmgard Seefried (Testament), which is so much more appropriate to the song.
That said, the doubters should listen to this recital with Edwin Fischer, one of the greatest ever discs of Schubert singing. As so often in her recitals dating back to Oxford days in 1950, annoyance with the occasional mannerism soon gives way to wonder at such an amazingly eager response to every facet of a song and its setting.
And truly inspired by Fischer, she throws caution utterly to the wind and astonishes us in accounts of Die junge Nonne, Ganymed and Gretchen am Spinnrade that have seldom if ever been surpassed for vocal consistency and concentration – though it's a pity the singer makes a break in the final, long phrase of Ganymed.
Fischer, one of the noblest Schubert interpreters of his or any time, is obviously a partner in a thousand, and on his own confirms his stature in the legendary 1950 recording of the Momentsmusicaux better transferred here than ever before – as are the Lieder. So this is a CD no Schubertian can do without.

Schubert: Lieder & Moments musicaux

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