Among the treasures rediscovered in the BBC archives are two recitals by the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf that were filmed in 1961 and 1970, when she was at the very peak of her powers and was partnered by a pianist who was without doubt the greatest accompanist of the 20th century: Gerald Moore. These two recitals allow us to re-encounter Schwarzkopf in her favourite repertory. Her anthology of German lieder takes us on a journey through the imaginative worlds of Mozart, Schubert and Wolf, but that journey would have been incomplete without footage of a public concert that was filmed by French television, a concert in which the soprano’s voice melds wonderfully with the orchestra’s instrumental sonorities in works by Mozart, Verdi and Strauss.
MOZART
Die kleine Spinnerin, K.531
Warnung, K.433 (K.416c)
Meine Wünsche
“Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein”, K.539
Aria
“Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gönner”, K.383
GLUCK
Aria: Einem Bach der fließt
SCHUBERT
An die Musik, D.547
Seligkeit, D.433
Seligkeit, D. 433
An Syliva, D. 891, Op. 106 n°4
WOLF
Goethe-Lieder: Philine
O war dein haus durchsichtig wie ein Glas
Das verlassene Mägdlein
In dem Schatten meiner Locken
SCHUMANN
Der Nussbäum “Myrthen”
BRAHMS
Vergebliches Ständchen, Op.84 n°4
Da unten im Tale, WoO33 n°6
MAHLER
Lob des Hohen Verstandsa
STRAUSS
Morgen Op.27 n°4
Mein Vater hat gesagt, Op. 36 n°3
Ruhe, meine Seele, Op.27 n°1
Meinem kinde, Op.37 n°3
Muttertändelei, Op.43 n°2
Morgen, Op.27 n°4
Zueignung, Op.10 n°1
Waldseligkeit, Op.49 n°1
ANON.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
VERDI
La canzon del Salice – Ave Maria
MENOTTI
Canti della Lontananza
Mattinata di neve, n°2
Rassegnazione, n°7
Popis