A Mozart Song Recital (Remastered) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Walter Gieseking

• Josef Mysliveček (1737 - 1781), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 1 Mysliveček, Mozart: Ridente la calma, K. 152 (Arr. of Mysliveček's Aria) 03:21
• 2 Mozart: Oiseaux, si tous les ans, K. 307 01:20
• 3 Mozart: Dans un bois solitaire, K. 308 02:59
• 4 Mozart: Die kleine Spinnerin, K. 531 01:42
• 5 Mozart: Als Luise die Briefe, K. 520 01:55
• 6 Mozart: Abendempfindung, K. 523 05:09
• 7 Mozart: Das Kinderspiel, K. 598 01:44
• 8 Mozart: Die Alte, K. 517 04:37
• 9 Mozart: Das Traumbild, K. 530 04:33
• 10 Mozart: Das Veilchen, K. 476 02:37
• 11 Mozart: Der Zauberer, K. 472 02:01
• 12 Mozart: Im Frühlingsanfang, K. 597 02:49
• 13 Mozart: Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519 05:37
• 14 Mozart: Die Zufriedenheit, K. 349 01:46
• 15 Mozart: An Chloe, K. 524 02:04
• 16 Mozart: Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling, K. 596 02:08
• 17 Mozart: Die Verschweigung, K. 518 02:44
• Total Runtime 49:06

Info for A Mozart Song Recital (Remastered)

In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, Sena Jurinac, Emmy Loose, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried and Ljuba Welitsch. For one famous evening Richard Tauber joined the cast of Don Giovanni before entering the hospital in which he died four months later. It was a season which, more than any other event at the time, reassured opera-goers that traditions survived and that singing of real distinction, even greatness, might yet be heard in the postwar world.

The Donna Elvira at these performances was Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (born in 1915), who was singled out in reviews for the warmest and most consistent praise of all. This was the year in which her name became an international property. She was 31 and already a singer of considerable experience. Her operatic debut dated back to 1938 with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where for long she was confined to small or soubrette parts which, she was advised, would continue to be her lot unless she signed up to the party membership requirements that were statutory under the Nazis. The decision was a hard one, but her father, though antipathetic to the regime, advised her to accept. Her career advanced, but was disrupted by a severe bout of tuberculosis. After her recovery, she was engaged by Karl Böhm for the Vienna Opera, making her debut there in 1944. Two years later, EMI’s talent scout and leading producer, Walter Legge, heard her as Rosina in The Barber of Seville: ‘a brilliant, fresh voice shot through with laughter, not large but admirably projected, with enchanting high notes’. She began recording with him almost immediately, at the start of a period incomparable in the history of the gramophone for the breadth of repertoire and the quality of performance.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Walter Gieseking, piano

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