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Songs by Hugo Wolf (Seraphim; $2.98). A single LP made from off-the-air tapes of one of Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's finest and most famous hours as a lieder singer- her recital in the Salzburg Mozarteum on Aug. 12, 1953. Words and melody blend the way they do partly because of her eminent piano accompanist, Wilhelm Furtwangler, who on this record plays the way he usually conducted: rounding phrases majestically, seeing to it that voice and instrument are blended perfectly...
...superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance are not just the property of lieder singers. The familiar full-throated Joplin warbling is still present-in Cry Baby and My Baby. But the final song, Get It While You Can, is mournfully ironic...
Leader and founder of the troupe is Isabelle Standwell, an Englishwoman whose aristocratic manners seem oddly appropriate both to Lady Macbeth and Wilde's Lady Bracknell She also lends her dowager tones to Schubert lieder and such trifles as Nevermore from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Her brother Sicnarf, having lived in America, has acquired a Southern accent as well as a rowdy taste in music and poetry; he does the genial turns...
Schubert: Lieder, Volume 1, 171 songs, 12 LPs; Volume II, 234 songs; 13 LPs (Deutsche Grammophon). Schubert was a better song writer than even Bob Dylan; here is the irrefutable evidence from the master of Lied, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...
...sense of pitch was phenomenal. She could hit a note right in the middle when she wanted to, but she could also shade a vowel with any one of a thousand different flat slurs that seemed always at her disposal. Her message came out with a clear diction few lieder singers could match. She shaped a song as though its architecture were sonata form, not repetitious twelve-bar patterns...