Our series finds its culmination in a more "select" group of songs by Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert that Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sang between 1953 and...

Our series finds its culmination in a more "select" group of songs by Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert that Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sang between 1953 and 1963, with accompanists of the calibre of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gerald Moore. Schwarzkopf's diction and the manner in which she moulds the text in Wolf's Spanish and Italian Songbooks have remained exemplary to the present day, and enabled her to make these works properly known for the first time. It also allowed her to make Schubert songs such as Gretchen at the spinning wheel and Love has lied into self-contained mini-dramas.