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Background: The basis of this CD is a record of duets that the two sopranos made with Gerald Moore in London in 1955. Again, doyen of vocal authorities John Steane recounts from personal experience: 'Schwarzkopf and Seefried sang together many times on stage and in the recording studios, but their afternoon duet recital in London on 15 May 1955 was a unique event… The recital took place in the Royal Festival Hall, where Schwarzkopf had sung in the inaugural concert just four years earlier and which still felt fresh and new. I remember...the delight of the afternoon's music… induced a rare sense of the privilege of life in the capital and indeed, at the end at last of the postwar Age of Austerity, of life in general.'

The Times reported appreciatively: the two singers were 'mutually attuned to a nicety', the voices blending 'as flute and clarinet', while the following year Gramophone magazine found the Dvorák duets particularly pleasing: 'when sung so charmingly and with such good balance as they are by the Misses Schwarzkopf and Seefried these pretty pieces are completely effective'.

This new state-of-the art remastering from the early tape originals improves greatly on this compilation’s previous appearance on Références.

CATALOGUE NR: 3920572
RECORD LABEL: EMI Great Recordings
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.50 including VAT, or £ 6.38 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Sep-2007

COMPOSER: Engelbert Humperdinck  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Soprano Duets
TRACKS: Hansel und Gretel : Suse liebe Suse… Bruderchen komm tanz mit mir - Dance Duet (Humperdinck). Der Rosenkavalier : Mir ist die Ehre - Presentation of the Rose (Richard Strauss). Madrigals Book 7 : Io son pur vezzosetta pastorella (Monteverdi). Madrigals Book 8 : Ardo e scoprir (Monteverdi). Madrigals Book 1 : Baci soave e cari (Monteverdi). Madrigals Book 8 : Gira il nemico insidioso (Monteverdi). E pur vuole in cielo 'Destava la cativa sorte in amore' (Giacomo Carissimi). Lungi omai deh spiega (Giacomo Carissimi). Il mio core e un mar (Giacomo Carissimi). A pie d'un verde alloro 'I Filosofi' (Giacomo Carissimi). 5 Moravian Duets B60 op.29 (Dvorak). 9 Moravian Duets B62 op.32 : Forsaken / Sad of heart / The modest maid / The ring / Omens / The maid imprisoned / Comfort / The wild rose (Dvorak).
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Josef Krips and Herbert von Karajan
ARTISTS: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf   Irmgard Seefried   Gerald Moore  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1955

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