Re: [ARSCLIST] Raucheisen collection

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

Steven Smolian wrote:

> I've been working the set.  The index is done. 
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> Still, it's a dream come true.  Lea Piltti,.......... Pitzinger, .........
Karl Schmitt-Walter ............ Lemnitz, ............. Anders ............
............. Leisner ....................Erna Berger........Hotter ......... Georg Hann .....
......... pre-Legge Schwarzkopf................ Leider
> 
> It should be borne in mind that the performers were all under the stress of a
> war, one that was being lost during the bulk of the time during which these
> recordings took place.  There were severe food shortages and little heat.  The
> theatres were closed from August, 1944, so there is half-a-year represented
> here that may have been the only career-related work many were able to get.
> 
> This set chronicles the last gasp of the German Lieder tradition before it
> became Legge-Fischer-Diskau-ized, music sung to worthy texts rather than
> performed as an inflected poetry recital.
> 
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----- I find Steven Smolian's remarks to be the best potted history of vocal 
performance yet on the ARSClist - out of ca. 10,500. Thank you, Steven!

Kind regards,


George