We all envied her, because all that we had to struggle so hard to achieve seemed so natural and self-evident to her because she knew how to sing from the heartsaid Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of her colleague IRMGARD SEEFRIED.

Collected here are Seefrieds complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon as well as highlights from her recordings of opera and sacred music for the label and includes material both unpublished and new to CD.