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I'm very sorry to read of her passing. She was a gift to lovers of 20th Century opera and concert vocal music; I see I have her in Hindemith's "Cardillac," Nielsen's "Saul and David," and no fewer than three of Sir Charles Mackerras' Janacek recordings for London/Decca.
She's also in the Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt performance of Orff's "Carmina Burana" in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra box on BIS, which I would be pleased to have as my only recording of that work if I didn't also have Robert Shaw's on Telarc. She's also the soprano in Haitink's recording of Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry," and an Ashkenazy/Philharmonia reading of Sibelius' "Luonnatar" on London/Decca.
As for Janacek, I remember she sang the title role in "Kat'a Kabanova" in English, under Kubelik, with the San Francisco Opera around the time the Mackerras recording was released. It was interesting to make comparisons, as Kubelik used the "traditional" edition and Mackerras a new critical one.
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> JohnA <janorf...@gmail.com> appears to have caused the following letters to > be typed in news:c519c28f-f955-430f-b8d2-58b06a6acdd6 > @k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:
> I'm very sorry to read of her passing. She was a gift to lovers of 20th > Century opera and concert vocal music; I see I have her in Hindemith's > "Cardillac," Nielsen's "Saul and David," and no fewer than three of Sir > Charles Mackerras' Janacek recordings for London/Decca.
> She's also in the Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt performance of Orff's "Carmina > Burana" in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra box on BIS, which I would > be pleased to have as my only recording of that work if I didn't also have > Robert Shaw's on Telarc. She's also the soprano in Haitink's recording of > Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry," and an Ashkenazy/Philharmonia > reading of Sibelius' "Luonnatar" on London/Decca.
> As for Janacek, I remember she sang the title role in "Kat'a Kabanova" in > English, under Kubelik, with the San Francisco Opera around the time the > Mackerras recording was released. It was interesting to make comparisons, > as Kubelik used the "traditional" edition and Mackerras a new critical one.
> -- > Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks! > Read about "Proty" here:http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/proty.html > To write to me, do for my address what Androcles did for the lion > Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employers
I attended the SFO/Kubelik Janacek performance. Awesome.
She recorded the Rachmaninov songs with Ashkenazy on Decca, a veritable treasure. And she sang the Soprano parts in a Decca set of the Complete Sibelius Songs with Irwin Gage as the accompaniest. Sadly the Sibelius was never issued on CD in the USA. I ordered it from GB a few years ago.
Coincidentally, I’ve been listening to a live Met broadcast of Figaro with Söderström from 1960 that just came my way. Della Casa is the Countess, Söderström Susanna, and Siepi Figaro, and it’s a sheer pleasure to listen to such stylish and musical singers interacting so intelligently in this opera of all operas. Leinsdorf is the conductor, and he’s a vast improvement over Rosenstock in the 1967 Met broadcast of Figaro. Söderström was always a great favorite of mine, and I used to love an old Epic recording of Dallapiccola song cycles with Söderström and Frederik Prausnitz, two musicians who could do no wrong. Needless to say, Söderström was also Mélisande under Boulez at Covent Garden in 1969, a performance that CBS also recorded with the Covent Garden ensemble.
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