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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Early Song Recordings For German Radio | Music & Arts MACD1195

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Early Song Recordings For German Radio

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Label: Music & Arts

Cat No: MACD1195

Barcode: 0017685119521

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 5th February 2007

Contents

Artists

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Michael Raucheisen (piano)

Artists

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Michael Raucheisen (piano)

About

These recordings range from a Bach cantata excerpt to folk songs, all made during World War II for the Reichsrundfunk Gesellschaft, whose classical music division was headed between 1940 and 1945 by the pianist Michael Raucheisen, Schwarzkopf 's first important mentor and the husband of Maria Ivogün, Schwarzkopf 's teacher.
Raucheisen invited the young soprano to take part in his radio project "Lied der Welt" for which such famous artists of the time as Peter Anders, Erna Berger,Anton Dermota, Hans Hotter, Frieda Leider,Tiana Lemnitz, Julius Patzak, Elisabeth Rethberg, Heinrich Schlusnus recorded more than a thousand songs.

Interviewed by John Steane for the book ‘Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Career on Record’, the singer recalled the circumstances under which these wartime recordings were made: much of the repertoire was new to her and she virtually sight-read most of the pieces, not even realising that the performances were being recorded for posterity. Re-hearing these radio recordings more than 50 years later, Schwarzkopf was displeased by the flat pitch of the duets with Lea Piltti, but liked many of the others, "particularly for their natural use of legato".

Indeed, those who complain of Schwarzkopf's later interpretive style as too mannered will find a fresh and less studied approach in these early recordings. As Schwarzkopf never recorded the bulk of the repertoire, we have an additional reason to cherish them.
Bonus: Schwarzkopf on the art of lieder singing (1980) RRG recordings 1941-43

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