Day 32: Schubert – a selection of Lieder.
Picture will follow.
The selection I listened to was very short! Gretchen Am
Spinrade (aka Margaret at the Spinning Wheel) and Die Junge Nonne (aka the Young
Nun)! The former was a piece I learned and performed as an audition piece when
I joined the Loughborough Amateur Operatic Society way back in the early ‘80s
(still going strong – LAOS, not my singing!): Curiously, my daughter is now going out with the grandson of the chap I had to sing for! I’m not sure where my love of
Schubert songs came from; it was possibly from my A level studies, or maybe
from university, as one of our courses was vocal music.
The performer here was mezzo-soprano Tamara Takacs, with
Jeno Jando at the piano, and was recorded at the Reformed Church in Budapest.
Surprisingly good voice actually; like a lot of people, I imagine, I can just here Kathleen Ferrier singing these.
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