On Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 3:17:30 PM UTC-7, Bill Staab wrote:
> Surely Irmgard Seefried was perhaps the absolute finest of
> Schubert sopranos in the postwar era, singing with Gerald Moore
> just after the war and then mostly with Erik Werba. Many recordings
> on EMI and then mostly on DGG and live performances on Orfeo from
> Salzburg. Interpretively more perceptive than Ameling, more
> natural than Schwarzkopf, and with superlative diction and
> as expressive as any Schubert soprano one can hear
Concerning Schwarzkopf, according to the following:
- I first heard Irmgard Seefried in the 1950s and 1960s singing lieder recitals in NYC. They were transforming superior to Schwartzkopf in their musicality, voice and interpretations. Her voice had a golden silver quality with a dark underpinning. The true quality which I heard in Town Hall and the Hunter College auditorium has never really been captured on record.
What impressed everybody was the deep emotional and natural communication of her singing-something that Schwartzkopf -whom I heard in her NYC lieder debut - never achieved in concert...
https://www.amazon.com/Irmgard-Seefried-Lieder/dp/B000M05VNE