Audiophile EMI references Schubert: Winterreise Hans Hotter Gerald Moore Lieder
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From a long closed shop stock room straight to my own shelves, unplayed since new, added to spice up my listings.
Audiophile true mono French only EMI References Schubert: Winterreise & Schwannengesang song Cycles from Hans Hotter & Gerald Moore. Two pinnacles of Lieder in the hands of experts. You can play these late 80's pressings on a stereo cart, in fact its better unless you have a narrow profile modern mono styli. A review:
Of the great bass-baritone Hans Hotter’s four recordings of Winterreise between 1942 and 1969, this one from1954, now beautifully remastered, is undoubtedly the best, and in many ways a benchmark itself within the recorded history of Schubert’s song-cycle. Compared with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hotter’s is a comparatively "non-interventionist" approach. Individual words are not pointed up so much as subtly shifting moods. And the cycle’s spiritual darkness is there within the covered tones and dark vowels of the voice, sustained and subtly variegated in long, fine lines and lightly-breathed phrases. Hotter’s hushed singing, wonderfully set into relief by Gerald Moore’s accompanying, creates a rare sense of fear, isolation and obsessive melancholy. Peter Schreier’s Winterreise could not be more different: I treasure both recordings, but find Schreier’s live performance with Sviatoslav Richter, like a poetry-reading set to music in the intensity of its details of articulation, phrasing and pacing, ultimately irresistible and unsurpassed. (Hilary Finch)
I am the only person to have played a couple of run in grooves of this (to check), and I have kept it perfectly near mint whilst doing so. What I have heard of it plays near mint.
Sleeve is excellent with small top seam splits where the lp centres, no other faults.
When we post this to you, it will be housed in a hard card custom made new box.
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