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Schubert: Lieder (Vol. 2)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Classical - Released January 1, 1969 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Is the second set of Fischer-Dieskau's nearly complete recordings of Schubert's songs even better than the first set? The performances are just as great: Fischer-Dieskau's voice is still one of the marvels of the age: strong, supple, sensitive, and soulful and his interpretations are so completely at one with the songs that one can hardly speak of something so vulgar as "interpretation." And accompanist Gerald Moore is still one of the finest accompanists who ever plunked at the piano, fitting himself to Fischer-Dieskau like a hand-tailored suit. But it is possible that the second set is even better than the first set because it includes Schubert's songs from 1818 through 1828 and, say what you will, but Schubert's later songs are better than his earlier songs. Which is saying quite a bit: how does one improve on perfection? But Schubert did and Fischer-Dieskau is right there with him, rising to heights beyond even those of the earlier songs. One of the greatest sets of recordings ever released, easily on the same exalted plane as Schnabel's Beethoven sonatas, Fitzgerald's Songbooks, and Dylan's Basement Tapes. Everyone should hear these recordings.© TiVo
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Schubert/Schumann Songs
Elly Ameling
Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | deutsche harmonia mundi
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It's not that the songs are fantastic, although Schubert and Schumann's songs are fantastic. It's not that Elly Ameling was young and full of spunk, although the young Elly Ameling was quite full of spunk. It's not that Jörg Demus is not a congenial accompanist, although he is as comfortable as a sofa and a tumbler of port. No, the reason that this disc is so terrific is that it disproves every rotten thing anyone's ever said about performances of Romantic music on period instruments because this is simply one of the most enchanting discs of echt Romantische Lieder ever recorded. Ameling's voice is so fresh and sweet, her tone so light and her technique so supple that she seems less a singer of the songs than the songs themselves given voice. And Demus' playing is so delicate but so strong, so lightly drawn, and so richly colored that one does not miss the sound of a concert grand, but rather revels in the sonorities of a hammerflugel. Only clarinetist Hans Deinzer in Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (D. 965) takes some getting used to, and that's mostly because his tone is so wonderfully ripe and his playing is so marvelously dexterous. If all recordings of Romantic music played on period instruments sounded like this, all recordings of Romantic music would be played on period instruments. This is an exquisitely beautiful recording.© TiVo
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Schubert / Schumann: Songs
Elly Ameling
Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | deutsche harmonia mundi
It's not that the songs are fantastic, although Schubert and Schumann's songs are fantastic. It's not that Elly Ameling was young and full of spunk, although the young Elly Ameling was quite full of spunk. It's not that Jörg Demus is not a congenial accompanist, although he is as comfortable as a sofa and a tumbler of port. No, the reason that this disc is so terrific is that it disproves every rotten thing anyone's ever said about performances of Romantic music on period instruments because this is simply one of the most enchanting discs of echt Romantische Lieder ever recorded. Ameling's voice is so fresh and sweet, her tone so light and her technique so supple that she seems less a singer of the songs than the songs themselves given voice. And Demus' playing is so delicate but so strong, so lightly drawn, and so richly colored that one does not miss the sound of a concert grand, but rather revels in the sonorities of a hammerflugel. Only clarinetist Hans Deinzer in Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (D. 965) takes some getting used to, and that's mostly because his tone is so wonderfully ripe and his playing is so marvelously dexterous. If all recordings of Romantic music played on period instruments sounded like this, all recordings of Romantic music would be played on period instruments. This is an exquisitely beautiful recording.© TiVo
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