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The stereo version of this recital won great praise for fidelity, from William Mann, in regard to quality of voice and piano tone and the balance between the two, but his enjoyment was tempered by the top of Irmgard Seefried's voice sounding throughout "wiry and uncomfortable", which he was...

This is the fourth of the Schubert Lieder recitals to be issued by these splendid artists; and for one reason and another it may not be your favourite. Three of the songs, Stiindchen, the ErlkOnig and Niihe des Geliebten, are too often performed and have for many people begun to lose their magic,...

We are fortunate in knowing, from an unusually detailed preface, how SchUtz wanted his Auferstehungs-Historie to be performed. Like many masters of the baroque, he made concrete suggestions that were nevertheless capable of modification according to the forces available, so that we might have...