Aafje Heynes started her musical life early, singing at her father's harmonium from the age of four. She auditioned for teacher Jo Immink with an arrangement of the "Pilgrims' Chorus"...
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I am letting you hear the Libeslieder Walzer (both opus numbers) at your leisure. For me to have posted a translation of every song would have been madness (on my...
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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen I have done a posting very similar to this one before, and I am repeating myself, but with different performers. This particular Lied merits...
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I do not think that Olszewska was a contralto, much in the same way that I don't think that Marian Anderson was a contralto, although both of them are in...
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Marian Anderson was a wonderful contralto and one of the great voices of the 20th century. In spite of her great success, she was still subject to the racial bias...
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"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen", one of Mahler's so-called Rückert lieder, is Mahler's finest song. I have been told that the word "Weltschmerz" or "world pain" is used much...
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Kathleen Ferrier had one of the great voices of the 20th century. She came to singing late, and her career lasted about 10 years after which time it was cut...
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I heard a performance of the Messiah today, and I decided to put up Kathleen Ferrier singing two arias from it. I also came upon a lovely recording by Ferrier...
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In this posting, I am returning to the idea of a comparison of singers against one piece. I have decided to take a single Lied by Robert Schumann and present...
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Kathleen Ferrier was a marvelous English contralto and a great artist. Bruno Walter, the esteemed conductor, said about her, "the greatest thing in music in my life has been to...
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