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Title: amazing collection of first-rate German songs.
Review: I bought this simply because I've loved Loewe ever since I heard Christa Ludwigsing "Der Noeck" around 1968 at Carnegie Hall, and have a fine CD collection ofFischer-Dieskau singing many of these songs. But I'm not a fan of his explosiveconsonants and over -interpretation. Here we have over 30 singers, most of themsinging one song each, and while some are well-known (Rethberg, Mayr, Hann, Bockelmann, etc.) others are really fine singers who seems to have recorded little.Who, for instance, is Julius von Brockmann, whose breath control in Der Nock isfairly mind-boggling, and whose timbre is sort of a bass version of Richard Tauber?Joseph von Manowarda, one of the finest Sarastros on a Preiser-1937 Magic Flute, isrepresented here as well. Loewe is not Schubert or Schumann, but his melodicand expressive tunes are very good close contenders. Mostly men and mostly basses,but if you love German art song, these CDs will bring you many happy hours.
