Seefried, Irmgard

Performer

Irmgard Seefried (9 October 1919 – 24 November 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder. One of the outstanding singers to emerge immediately after the Second World War, she was noted for her Mozart andRichard Strauss roles. But she also sang in other composers' operas; the title role in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Marie inAlban Berg's Wozzeck, Eva in Meistersinger, Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, and the title role inJanáček's Káťa Kabanová. She was also a noted lieder singer and a number of her Salzburg Festival recitals were recorded. She left many recordings of oratorio and sacred music by Bach, Mozart, Haydn (including at least four different renditions of the Archangel Gabriel in Die Schöpfung), Brahms, Fauré, Beethoven, Dvořák, and Stravinsky.  [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• Morike-Lieder
• Italian songbook
• Spanish songbook
• The King in Thule, D. 367
• Bliss, D. 433
• To Music, D. 547
• Laughter and Tears, D. 777
• Song in the Country, D. 917
• As Luise Was Burning the Letters of Her Unfaithful Lover, K. 520
• Longing for Spring, K. 596
• 6 Songs, Op. 7
• 6 Christmas Carols, Op. 8
• 8 Poems from 'Last Leaves', Op. 10
• 6 Songs, Op. 17
• Song cycle, Op. 24
• Myrthen, Op. 25
• 4 Songs, Op. 27
• 3 Songs, Op. 29
• 6 Songs, Op. 37
• Five Songs, Op. 41
• A Woman's Love and Life, Op. 42
• 8 Lieder and Songs, Op. 59
• 5 Little songs, Op. 69
• 5 Songs, Op. 106
• Gedichte von J. W. von Goethe (Published Vienna 1890)
• The Trout, D. 550
• To Be Sung on the Water, D. 774
• The Violet, K. 476
• The Concealment, K. 518
• Song of Separation, K. 519
• Abendempfindung, K. 523
• An Chloe, K. 524
• The Little Spinner Girl, K. 531
• A Child at Play, K. 598
• Schlichte Weisen, Op. 21
• Simple Songs, Op. 76
• Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17
• The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
• Don Giovanni, K. 527
• The Magic Flute, K. 620
• Fidelio, Op. 72
• The Freeshooter, Op. 77
• Yield now, troubling shadows, BWV 202
• The sunset, P. 101
• Rosamunde, D. 797
• In a lonely wood, K. 308
• St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
• The Rose-Bearer, Op. 59
• 49 German Folk Songs, WoO 33
• The Creation, Hob. XXI:2