Comments on On An Overgrown Path: In memoriam Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Berend, but there are truly many recordings of Sch...

2006-08-04T07:47:46.353+01:00

Berend, but there are truly many recordings of Schwarzkopf that I couldn't live without. Obviously there is Der Rosenkavalier, but I would also nominate her Cappriccio with Eberhard Wacher, Nicolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig and Anna Moffo with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting Legge's Philharmonia Orchestra. The final scene plays on my old World Records (SOC 230/1/2) vinyl LP set as I write.

Berend, fair point, and my first choice for the Fo...

2006-08-04T07:25:49.113+01:00

Berend, fair point, and my first choice for the Four Last Songs would probably be the Janowitz version with Karajan and the BPO.

I really should have written 'arguably the greatest soprano of the post-war period', but in the circumstances I decided to give Madame Schwarzkopf maximum respect in that one post.

Jerry, by one of those weird pieces of synchronicity the snail post yesterday brought a copy of Joshua M Green’s book Here Comes the Sun – the Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison that I had ordered recently from an internet retailer.

Are you sure that's not George Harrison in the pho...

2006-08-04T04:07:13.576+01:00

Are you sure that's not George Harrison in the photo?

Depending on how long the post-war period is, I th...

2006-08-03T23:52:10.480+01:00

Depending on how long the post-war period is, I think Gundula Janowitz is a serious contender for the first spot as well :-)