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Epicurus.com - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $8.97
Your Save: $ 3.01 ( 25% )
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724356725621
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: 2000-03-14
Studio: EMI Classics
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Editorial Reviews:
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Of the concert performances in London that preceded the making of this recording in March 1968, the Guardian's Ted Greenfield wrote that "the two greatest Lieder singers in the world" were supported by "Britain's finest orchestra under the conductor who has trained America's finest orchestra"--and this is still true. No surprise, then, that this rendition of the Wunderhorn songs has been a classic from the day it was made, and fittingly belongs in EMI's Great Recordings of the Century reissue series. It finds Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in stupendous form, hurling the words of "Revelge" out with an almost sadistic edge, and bringing an extraordinary range of emotion and nuance to half-a-dozen other songs, too. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was beginning to sound a bit matronly at this stage in her career--the bloom is off the voice, to be sure--but in her singing, too, the expressive pointing is as keen as ever. George Szell proves himself once again a master of Mahler's moods, eliciting a performance of amazing detail and clarity from the London players, and achieving just the right pace and emphasis in each piece. The recording, made in Kingsway Hall, is magnificent: glorious, well-balanced sound with tremendous immediacy, across a beautiful, wide sound stage. I have cherished the LP ever since it was released in 1969, but this remastering reveals a host of new and wonderful things that will make for pleasurable listening for another 30 years. --Ted Libbey
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Sounds good, but first two tracks defective
Comment: I liked these but the first two tracks sounded as if they had been ripped from a scratched CD so I bought the Quastoff/van Otter recording
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Summary: An extraordinary mixture of tradition and modernity
Comment: Knowing that these lieder come from the XVIII century and that is Mahler who orchestrated them, it is the more exciting to listen to them. Excellent interpretations of Fischer-Dieskau and Schwarzkopf with a great orchestra. The traditional structure and knowledge of the lyrics contrast with the wonderful music and the result is the more intriguing when you realize that this incorportion of the old into the new didn't triumph in Germany. Quite the reverse. It makes you pensive.
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Summary: Your first choice, given price and performers.
Comment: 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' is not my favorite Mahler collection of 'orchestral songs', but it may be the most interesting in the sense that it seems to have the greatest affinity for both the popular German 'folkkunst' which came before and the modern German stage music of, for example, Kurt Weill. One may be willing to pass up this recording, as it has only this one work, while 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' appears together with other Mahler works in many packages, but then, you would not be getting the performance of the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. This CD is so reasonably priced that you can easily afford to own at least two renditions of the work, as long as this one is one of the two.
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Summary: IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS
Comment: "Great Recordings of the Century" is hype that rarely lives up to the
billing. But in this case it's an understatement. Want to know what
made Mahler great? Want to hear why Fischer Dieskau & Schwarzkopf are
so highly regarded? Listen. Every track is like a mini-drama that
lures you into a mysterious place, involves you in a deeply felt story
and then chills you with the realization that you're looking in a mirror
and seeing yourself. This really IS one of the great recordings of all time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: an unexpected bargain!
Comment: "Unexpected Bargain", , May 15, 2005
To be honest, I bought this CD because I love all of Mahler's works and because I got it cheap.
Lucky me--turned out it was a classic performance by Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Diskau, and Szell and the London Symphony.
I thought I was just getting a bargain, but I can't imagine anyone doing a better version of Wunderhorn.
This was an unexpected bargain.
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