Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - The Christmas Album
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Edition: Music CDAudio: Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-10-17
Music Label: EMI Classics Imports
Soundtracks:
- Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Original Version)
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- O Du Frohliche
- Sandmannchen
- In Einem Kuhlen Grunde
- Panis Angelicus
- The Forst Nowell
- In Dulci Jubilo
- Weihnachten
- Vom Himmel Hoch
- I Saw Three Ships
- Maria Auf Dem Berge
- Easter Alleluia
- Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Original Version - Mono)
Music reviews of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - The Christmas Album
Music Review: Ugh...don't bother
Rating: 1 Stars
If you are a fan of Madame Schwarzkopf, you will not be dissuaded from buying this dismal CD. The arrangements are fine, Charles Mackerras' conducting uniformly competent, the sound OK for an album originally recorded in 1957.
The only thing missing is a great voice as the centerpiece. Schwarzkopf is one of history's most overrated singers and this album demonstrates her monumental shortcomings. Her voice is small, uniformly poorly supported, and lacking in any exceptional beauty. She resorts to straight tone and scooping to reach and maintain any note near the top of the staff or beyond mezzo piano. Her high note at the end of "Vom Himmel hoch" is truly excruciating.
There is a real "Florence Foster Jenkins" element to her singing that shows up in every cut. I feel certain that if you played a few excerpts from this album for someone who had a good ear for singing, but was unfamiliar with Schwarzkopf, their reaction would be one of indifference. Schwarzkopf sounds like the best singer in a small local choir, but the idea that she was a world famous singer, applauded by millions, is an alarming testament to the art of selling an artist to the masses whose fame far outreached her talent.
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