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Irmgard Seefried Edition

Irmgard Seefried

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Format: 20CD

Cat No: ELQ4843250

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Release Date:  29 November 2024

Label:  Australian Eloquence

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  20

Barcode:  028948432509

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    "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Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the label and includes material both unpublished and new to CD.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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. MOZART 9 Lieder
      • 10. SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und Leben

      Disc 2

      • 1. SCHUBERT Lieder

      Disc 3

      • 1. SCHUBERT . SCHUMANN . BRAHMS Lieder

      Disc 4

      • 1. SCHUMANN Lied und Dichtung

      Disc 5

      • 1. BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer

      Disc 6

      • 1. BRAHMS . RICHARD STRAUSS . CORNELIUS Lieder

      Disc 7

      • 1. SCHUBERT \u2219 BRAHMS . RICHARD STRAUSS . *REGER Lieder
      • 2. HINDEMITH 3 Geistliche Motetten
      • 3. EGK Quattro canzoni

      Disc 8

      • 1. WOLF Nimmersatte Liebe
      • 2. Italienisches Liederbuch (excerpts)

      Disc 9

      • 1. WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch

      Disc 10

      • 1. WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

      Disc 11

      • 1. LIEDER NACH GEDICHTEN VON GOETHE
      • 2. (Mozart . Beethoven . Schubert . Schumann . Wolf)

      Disc 12

      • 1. LIEDERABEND IRMGARD SEEFRIED
      • 2. (Schubert . Brahms . Mussorgsky . Bartok . Wolf . Strauss)

      Disc 13

      • 1. J.S. BACH Wedding Cantata, BWV 202
      • 2. RESPIGHI Il tramonto
      • 3. MOZART Divertimento, K. 138
      • 4. MOZART Cosi fan tutte (arias - sung in German

      Disc 14

      • 1. IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS HANDEL & MOZART
      • 2. (Arias and scenes from Giulio Cesare & Cosi fan tutte)

      Disc 15

      • 1. IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS MOZART
      • 2. (Arias and scenes from Il re pastore, Don Giovanni & Le nozze di Figaro )

      Disc 16

      • 1. ROMANTIC HEROINES
      • 2. (Arias and scenes from Carmen (Bizet), Mignon (Thomas), Der Wildschutz (Lortzing) & Der Freischutz (Weber))

      Disc 17

      • 1. IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS BEETHOVEN & RICHARD STRAUSS
      • 2. (Scenes from Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos (1954 recording) & Der Rosenkavalier)

      Disc 18

      • 1. IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS SACRED MUSIC
      • 2. (Arias and Duets from Matthaus-Passion (J.S. Bach), Die Schopfung (Haydn) & Messe solennelle de Ste. Cecile (Gounod))

      Disc 19

      • 1. ERIK WERBA BEGLEITET SIE (Erik Werba Accompanies You)

      Disc 20

      • 1. IRMGARD SEEFRIED - EIN SELBSTPORTRAT (Irmgard Seefried in Person)

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