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Irmgard Seefried - Irmgard Seefried Edition [CD]

Irmgard Seefried - Irmgard Seefried Edition [CD]

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"We all envied her, because all that we had to struggle so hard to achieve seemed so natural and self-evident to her because she knew how to sing from the heart" said Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of her colleague IRMGARD SEEFRIED.

Collected here are Seefried's complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the label and includes material both unpublished and new to CD.

Irmgard Seefried was a revered artist among lovers of natural singing, wrote the critic Alan Blyth. 'The emotions, grave or gay, are expressed directly, unfussily, genuinely, in that peculiarly outgoing manner that was this artist's supreme gift.' This gift illuminates song repertoire from Bach to Bartok and beyond in a newly compiled and remastered set of her recital albums recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1950s and 60s.

'If I were condemned to hear only one voice for the remainder of my life I think it might well be hers,' wrote Blyth on another occasion (a reissue of the 1953 'Liederabend' anthology of concert performances). 'If I wanted to be charmed, to laugh or to cry I would find her the perfect companion.'

The core of the set is formed by several albums of Romantic Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf. As well as an imaginative collection of Goethe settings, there is an album of Heine and Schumann, poetry and song, in which the recited portions are reissued on CD for the first time. The set includes two appendices, both also new to CD: Seefried's contribution to the DG audio documentary series 'Erzahltes Leben', and 'Erik Werba Accompanies You', in which the soprano's regular recital partner plays the piano part for famous Lieder (with the idea that the listener at home will take the sung line for themselves).

Seefried also made several opera recordings as well as sacred music for Deutsche Grammophon. Generous excerpts from these - often including entire scenes, not just arias - are included as newly-compiled anthologies across five CDs.

Seefried's greatness transferred to modern song repertoire, too: not only the opulent romanticism of Respighi's Il tramonto but Werner Egk's German-Mediterranean Quattro canzoni, and a selection of sacred solo motets by Paul Hindemith that surprised and delighted many critics on its first issue.

All the material in this Original Covers collection has been newly remastered, and the set is richly illustrated and accompanied by a new essay on Seefried's art by Tully Potter as well as an English translation of Ein Selbstportrat by Fer van Campen.

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"We all envied her, because all that we had to struggle so hard to achieve seemed so natural and self-evident to her because she knew how to sing from the heart" said Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of her colleague IRMGARD SEEFRIED.

Collected here are Seefried's complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the label and includes material both unpublished and new to CD.

Irmgard Seefried was a revered artist among lovers of natural singing, wrote the critic Alan Blyth. 'The emotions, grave or gay, are expressed directly, unfussily, genuinely, in that peculiarly outgoing manner that was this artist's supreme gift.' This gift illuminates song repertoire from Bach to Bartok and beyond in a newly compiled and remastered set of her recital albums recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1950s and 60s.

'If I were condemned to hear only one voice for the remainder of my life I think it might well be hers,' wrote Blyth on another occasion (a reissue of the 1953 'Liederabend' anthology of concert performances). 'If I wanted to be charmed, to laugh or to cry I would find her the perfect companion.'

The core of the set is formed by several albums of Romantic Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf. As well as an imaginative collection of Goethe settings, there is an album of Heine and Schumann, poetry and song, in which the recited portions are reissued on CD for the first time. The set includes two appendices, both also new to CD: Seefried's contribution to the DG audio documentary series 'Erzahltes Leben', and 'Erik Werba Accompanies You', in which the soprano's regular recital partner plays the piano part for famous Lieder (with the idea that the listener at home will take the sung line for themselves).

Seefried also made several opera recordings as well as sacred music for Deutsche Grammophon. Generous excerpts from these - often including entire scenes, not just arias - are included as newly-compiled anthologies across five CDs.

Seefried's greatness transferred to modern song repertoire, too: not only the opulent romanticism of Respighi's Il tramonto but Werner Egk's German-Mediterranean Quattro canzoni, and a selection of sacred solo motets by Paul Hindemith that surprised and delighted many critics on its first issue.

All the material in this Original Covers collection has been newly remastered, and the set is richly illustrated and accompanied by a new essay on Seefried's art by Tully Potter as well as an English translation of Ein Selbstportrat by Fer van Campen.

Track Listing

MOZART 9 Lieder

SCHUBERT Lieder

SCHUBERT . SCHUMANN . BRAHMS Lieder

SCHUMANN Lied und Dichtung

BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer

BRAHMS . RICHARD STRAUSS . CORNELIUS Lieder

SCHUBERT \u2219 BRAHMS . RICHARD STRAUSS . *REGER Lieder

WOLF Nimmersatte Liebe

WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

LIEDER NACH GEDICHTEN VON GOETHE

LIEDERABEND IRMGARD SEEFRIED

J.S. BACH Wedding Cantata, BWV 202

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS HANDEL & MOZART

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS MOZART

ROMANTIC HEROINES

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS BEETHOVEN & RICHARD STRAUSS

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS SACRED MUSIC

ERIK WERBA BEGLEITET SIE (Erik Werba Accompanies You)

IRMGARD SEEFRIED - EIN SELBSTPORTRAT (Irmgard Seefried in Person)

HINDEMITH 3 Geistliche Motetten

Italienisches Liederbuch (excerpts)

(Mozart . Beethoven . Schubert . Schumann . Wolf)

(Schubert . Brahms . Mussorgsky . Bartok . Wolf . Strauss)

RESPIGHI Il tramonto

(Arias and scenes from Giulio Cesare & Cosi fan tutte)

(Arias and scenes from Il re pastore, Don Giovanni & Le nozze di Figaro )

(Arias and scenes from Carmen (Bizet), Mignon (Thomas), Der Wildschutz (Lortzing) & Der Freischutz (Weber))

(Scenes from Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos (1954 recording) & Der Rosenkavalier)

(Arias and Duets from Matthaus-Passion (J.S. Bach), Die Schopfung (Haydn) & Messe solennelle de Ste. Cecile (Gounod))

EGK Quattro canzoni

MOZART Divertimento, K. 138

MOZART Cosi fan tutte (arias - sung in German

SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und Leben

Details
  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 28948432509
  • Release Date: February 21, 2025
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