Irmgard Seefried Edition (20CD Boxset)

“We all envied her, because all that we had to struggle so hard to achieve seemed so natural and self-evident to her because she knew how to sing from the heart” said Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of her colleague IRMGARD SEEFRIED.

Collected here are Seefried’s complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the label and includes material both unpublished and new to CD.

TRACK LIST

CD 1

MOZART 9 Lieder

SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und Leben

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 2

SCHUBERT Lieder

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 3

SCHUBERT · SCHUMANN · BRAHMS Lieder

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 4

SCHUMANN Lied und Dichtung

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Oskar Werner, speaker · Erik Werba, piano

CD 5

BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer (1962 studio recording* & 1952 ‘live’ recording°)

Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer (1962 studio recording)

*Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Raili Kostia, alto · Waldemar Kmentt, tenor · Eberhard Wächter, baritone · Erik Werba & Günther Weissenborn, piano

°Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Kathleen Ferrier, contralto · Julius Patzak, tenor · Horst Günther, bass-baritone · Clifford Curzon & Hans Gál, piano

CD 6

BRAHMS · RICHARD STRAUSS · CORNELIUS Lieder

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 7

SCHUBERT ∙ BRAHMS · RICHARD STRAUSS · *REGER Lieder

HINDEMITH 3 Geistliche Motetten

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano · *Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin

EGK Quattro canzoni

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Werner Egk

CD 8

WOLF Nimmersatte Liebe

Italienisches Liederbuch (excerpts)

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Oskar Werner, speaker · Erik Werba, piano

CD 9

WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Eberhard Wächter, baritone · Erik Werba, piano

First complete release on CD

CD 10

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone · Jörg Demus, piano

CD 11

LIEDER NACH GEDICHTEN VON GOETHE

Mozart · Beethoven · Schubert · Schumann · Wolf

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 12

LIEDERABEND IRMGARD SEEFRIED

Schubert · Brahms · Mussorgsky · Bartók · Wolf · Strauss

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Erik Werba, piano

CD 13

J.S. BACH Wedding Cantata, BWV 202

RESPIGHI Il tramonto

MOZART Divertimento, K. 138*

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Festival Strings Lucerne / Rudolf Baumgartner

MOZART Così fan tutte (arias – sung in German)°

Irmgard Seefried, soprano · Wiener Symphoniker / Ferdinand Leitner

*First Release on CD

°Previously unpublished

CD 14

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS HANDEL & MOZART

Arias and scenes from Giulio Cesare & Così fan tutte

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

Karl Böhm; Eugen Jochum; Ferdinand Leitner

CD 15

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS MOZART

Arias and scenes from Il re pastore, Don Giovanni & Le nozze di Figaro

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

Ferdinand Leitner; Ferenc Fricsay

CD 16

ROMANTIC HEROINES

Arias and scenes from Carmen (Bizet), Mignon (Thomas), Der Wildschütz (Lortzing) & Der Freischütz (Weber)

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

Ferdinand Leitner; Jean Fournet; Christoph Stepp; Eugen Jochum

CD 17

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS BEETHOVEN & RICHARD STRAUSS

Scenes from Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos (1954 recording) & Der Rosenkavalier

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

Karl Böhm

CD 18

IRMGARD SEEFRIED SINGS SACRED MUSIC

Arias and Duets from Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach), Die Schöpfung (Haydn) & Messe solennelle de Ste. Cécile (Gounod)

Irmgard Seefried, soprano

Karl Richter; Igor Markevitch

CD 19

ERIK WERBA BEGLEITET SIE

(Erik Werba Accompanies You)

Erik Werba, piano

First Release on CD

CD 20

IRMGARD SEEFRIED – EIN SELBSTPORTRÄT

(Irmgard Seefried in Person)

First Release on CD