The Very Best of Brigitte Fassbaender
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Performer: Hermann PreyPerformer: Benno Kusche
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
Composer: Friedrich von Flotow
Composer: Johann II [Junior] Strauss
Composer: Leo Fall
Composer: Oscar Straus
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Conductor: Eugen Jochum
Conductor: Wolfgang Gonnenwein
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Conductor: Gerd Albrecht
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Laudamus Te
- Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
- Agnus Dei
- Von Den Stricken Meiner Sunden
- Es Ist Vollbracht!
- Doch Wer Wird Ertagen Den Tag (But Who May Abide)
- O Du, Der Wonne Verkundet In Zion (O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion)
- Er Ward Verschmahet (He Was Despised)
- Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi - Lucia Popp
- Una Voce Poco Fa
- Mon Coeur S'ouvre A Ta Voix
- Suicidio!
- Ach, Ich Habe Sie Verloren (Che Faro Senza Eurdice?)
- Verhangnisvoll War Das Geschenkn (O Don Fatale)
- Der Musensohn D764
- Gretchen Am Spinnrade D118
- An Sylvia D891
- Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen D774
- Fruhlingsglaube D686
- Die Sterne D939
- Der Einsame D800
- An Die Musik D547
- Gute Nacht
- Die Wetterfahne
- Der Linderbaum
- Fruhlingstraum
- Einsamkeit
- Die Post
- Mut
- Die Nebensonnen
- Der Leiermann
- Jagerin, Schlau Im Sinn - Hermann Prey
- Ja, Was Nun? - Hermann Prey
- Ich Lade Gern Mir Gaste Ein
- Heinerle, Heinerle, Hab' Kein Geld
- Voruber Ist Die Feier
- Im Labyrinth Der Freundlichen Hallen (Au Cabaret Du Labyrinthe)
- Venus Mit Heissen Liebesflammen (Venus Au Fond De Notre Ame)
Music reviews of The Very Best of Brigitte Fassbaender
Music Review: Redisovering a great Schubert singer
Rating: 5 Stars
The first CD in this two-fer is mostly Bach and Handel, the second CD mostly Schubert (17 lieder). Fassbaender was eminent in both areas, as well as on the oepra stage, but as she grew older she concentrated entirely on liedersinging. She was never as famous as Christa Ludwig, the other Austro-German mezzo of greatness at the time. Their voices are in stark contrast: Ludwig was soft, warm, and smiling (she had a hard time being convincingly tragic), while Fassbaender's was plaintive, sharply focused, and rarely smiling. There's a peculiar glint in her timbre that's almost metallic.
Leaving tone aside, she has great intelligence and acuity in lieder. Her Schubert isn't soft and gentle but dramatic and incisive. Eight lieder here are miscellaneous 'great hits' with Erik Werbe, the other nine are from Winterreise with Fassbaender's long-time accompanist Aribert Reimann, who's playing fits her style more closely. All these readings are intense, and although female versions of Winterreise are rare (Ludwig has a fine autumnal one with James Levine at the piano on DG), Fassbaender is thrilling and her voice suitably dark and tragic. I'd rate this her finest Schubert on disc, recor4ded early enough that she hadn't become overly intense and hectoring, which happens on some of her late recordings. Highly recommended.
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