Elizabeth Schwarzkopf: Schubert & Mozart Lieder (FLAC)

Performer: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer, Walter Gieseking
Composer: Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: EMI
Size: 258 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

# An die Musik (“Du holde Kunst…”), song for voice & piano, D. 547 (Op. 88/4)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Im Frühling (“Still sitz ich”), song for voice & piano, D. 882
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Wehmut (“Wenn ich durch Wald und Fluren geh”), song for voice & piano, D. 772 (Op. 22/2)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Ganymed (“Wie im Morgenglanze”), song for voice & piano, D. 544 (Op. 19/3)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Das Lied im Grünen (“Ins Grüne…”), song for voice & piano, D. 917 (Op. posth. 115/1)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Gretchen am Spinnrade (“Meine Ruh’…”), song for voice & piano, D. 118 (Op. 2)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Nähe des Geliebten (“Ich denke dein”), song for voice & piano (two versions), D. 162 (Op. 5/2)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Die junge Nonne (“Wie braust durch die Wipfel”), song for voice & piano, D. 828 (Op. 43/1)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Gesang (“Was ist Sylvia,…”), song for voice & piano, (“An Sylvia”), D. 891 (Op. 106/4)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Auf dem Wasser zu singen (“Mitten im Schimmer der spiegelnden Wellen”), song for voice & piano, D. 774 (Op. 72)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Nachtviolen, song for voice & piano, D. 752
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Der Musensohn (“Durch Feld und Wald zu schweifen”), song for voice & piano, D. 764 (Op. 92/1)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edwin Fischer

# Ridente la calma, song for voice & piano, K. 152 (K. 210a) (spurious, by Myslivecek)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Oiseaux, si tous les ans, song for voice & piano, K. 307 (K. 284d)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Die kleine Spinnerin (Was spinnst du?”), song for voice & piano, K. 531
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Als Luise die Briefe (“Erzeugt von heisser Phantasie”), song for voice & piano, K. 520
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Abendempfindung an Laura (“Abend ist’s”), song for voice & piano, K. 523
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Das Kinderspiel (“Wir Kinder, wir schmecken”), song for voice & piano, K. 598
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Der Zauberer (“Ihr Mädchen”), song for voice & piano, K. 472
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Im Frühlingsanfang (“Erwacht zum neuen Leben”), song for voice & piano, K. 597
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Die Zufriedenheit (“Was frag ich viel”), song for voice & piano (or mandolin), K. 349 (K. 367a)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# An Chloe (“Wenn die Lieb'”), song for voice & piano, K. 524
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

# Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling (“Komm, lieber Mai”), song for voice & piano, K. 596
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with Walter Gieseking, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Schwarzkopf in the mid-1950’s . . . no need to say more.

As so often with Schwarzkopf, I start out resisting and eventually I’m won over. Why the resistance? She lays the words on the vocal line in a distinctive way that to my ears isn’t always pleasing and gives the impression that the voice is less robust than it in fact is. But the expressive power is real, and you begin to believe that she’s totally imaginatively engaged with these songs. Has “Gretchen am Spinnrade” ever been more movingly done? Even the excellent Janet Baker can seem less nakedly emotional and distraught than Schwarzkopf’s Gretchen. And her “Ganymed” — a song I’ve never liked for some reason — works for her. “Die Junge Nonne” is another beauty, and “Der Musensohn” is feather-light and winning. These Schubert songs were recorded, with Edwin Fischer, in 1953, and piano sound and voice/piano balance seem good. The Mozart songs were recorded in stereo three years later, and the piano sound is warmer and equally well-balanced. I find the songs less appealing than Schubert’s, but Schwarzkopf’s performances are compelling. The long “Abendempfindung” is gorgeously done. Schwarzkopf was around 40 and her voice is in fine condition — her EMI Mozart operas with von Karajan belong to this period. Strongly recommended.