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Five Times Surprise brings together a volatile mix of longtime compatriots and newly forged relationships

He did not only record under his own name but started his career using the name of Terry Preston

he studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw

The negation of the physical in song singing and the wish of the guards of the genre to use only the voice for expression were always suspicious to me and I wanted to find out what expressive possibilities Schubert's songs reveal once you dare to give up the format that has been in use since the 1950s

Wolf/ Irmgard Seefried / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Wolf: Italianisches Liederbuch Release:Wolf: Italianisches Liederbuch Eloquence Australia Five Times Surprise brings togetherPerhaps no pair of singers on record has interpreted this cycle of 46 songs with such natural accomplishment as Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. They made this recording near the end of the 1950s at the height of Seefried's career and near the start of Fischer Dieskau's, and it's qualities of both freshness and delight in response to the text and vocal beauty have stood the test of time. The singers performed the cycle together live at

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