Glenn Gould, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Richard Strauss

[sdegrace]

Both of them wonderful!

[quinto34]

Extraordinary indeed, such a shame those two couldn't work together, but hey, I'm happy with this :)

[solonka123]

Extraordinary!

[suzettegm]

Well M.of course I kept and pondered those emails...Gould who upset Elizabeth Schwarzkopf by gauchely rejecting the bourgeois view of what Strauss songs should be (i.e. world-weary celebrations - presumably due to the texts - of late Romantic anguish...FIRE!!! Dominique Strauss Kahn....What's in a name one cannot help but wonder? Real music.

[phoenix4165]

I gather that Gould kept improvising throughout these sessions and, when challenged, insisted that this was the way Strauss meant to write it! In the long run these were the only ones which were published but aren't they splendid?