Anne-Sofie von Otter, Olaf Bar, and Geoffrey Parsons touch but cannot surpass the artistry of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Gerald Moore's 1967 recording of Wolf's Spanische Liederbuch. Justly judged one of the greatest lieder recordings ever made, Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, and Moore's achievement in articulating every nuance and subtlety of Wolf's songs is among the greatest in all recorded music. Yet, for all its greatness, there has always been something artificial in their performance, ...
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Anne-Sofie von Otter, Olaf Bar, and Geoffrey Parsons touch but cannot surpass the artistry of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Gerald Moore's 1967 recording of Wolf's Spanische Liederbuch. Justly judged one of the greatest lieder recordings ever made, Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, and Moore's achievement in articulating every nuance and subtlety of Wolf's songs is among the greatest in all recorded music. Yet, for all its greatness, there has always been something artificial in their performance, something too objective, too distant, to make their performance truly moving. And it is precisely at this point that von Otter, Bar, and Parsons match and even surpass Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, and Moore. Von Otter and Bar sound passionately, recklessly, and unreservedly in love with these songs, and they sing them with the kind of profound emotional identification that makes their performance far more moving than Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau, and Moore's. While von Otter, Bar, and...
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Add this copy of Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch (Spanish Songbook) to cart. $12.99, like new condition, Sold by Mom's Resale rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from River Hills, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Angel Records / EMI Classics.
