“As a Lieder singer, Brigitte Fassbaender was a law unto herself. …her Frauenliebe und-leben from the 1977 Salzburg Festival has a no-holds-barred intensity. No other singer suggests such pain within the cycle's dominant moods of dreamy rapture and happy enthusiasm, as if its ending were implicit at the outset.”
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