Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A famous singer who earned renown as one of the greatest leader singers in the world.
On the island
Eight records
It is lovely, peaceful, warm and uh most beautifully played, I think.
She's just perfect in style and warmth and beauty and simplicity in her production. But what I have chosen is a little gay street song Clavalitos, which is a famous uncle of hers, and she does it with great expression, the different moods of the girl.
Because I think she's one of the finest musicians amongst the pianists, you know, and I love her warm-hearted playing and enjoy it always.
Well, I would have one of the finest singers during the last forty years, and that I think was also Poncell, who sang La Forta del D'Estino and Norma and all these parts. And her singing of the Aria at the end of La Forza del Estino is simply wonderful and warm and artistic and faultlessly done. And I love to listen to something like that, you know.
Second movement of the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
I very much love his piece of violin concerto. I don't know if the whole concept is allowed, but anyway I may get the slow movement of it.
Duet from Der Rosenkavalier (Second act)
Elisabeth Schumann and Maria Olszewska
I enjoy immensely is the Rosen Cavalier and and the old fashioned one, you know, in the seventy eight record with um with the great cast of Lot Lehmann, Elizabeth Schumann and Olszewska. and particularly the the entry of the second act. with the presenting of the rules. I think Elisa Petchuman singing is just beyond description lovely and beautiful.
It's great artistry and warm and passionate temperament and I'd just love to hear it over and over again.
there is one little record which has followed me through my whole career very successfully and that is a l a light record, in a graceful record, in Absheet Farewell of a young lover from the village where his beloved is left behind. But in a in a in a gay, happy mood. Not a very deep love, but it's a lovely song and I would like perhaps take this as a reminder of the times when I wasn't banned and had to go to the desert island.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:44Where were you born?
I am born in Lebton.
Presenter asks
2:58Were there any famous musicians in your family, or were you the first?
No, the first. No, my whole family sang, but were all musical, but nobody professional. Yes. Except me and my youngest brother.
Presenter asks
3:10When did your talent first show itself?
Well, I sang all my life, but I think I made my degree the first day when I came to school and couldn't do any writing or reading or anything. And when the teacher asked me what can you do, I burst out and said, I can sing. … And he was so intrigued by my interpretation that he called all the teachers along from the floor and I had to had to do it again. Then he insisted up to the end of his life that he had discovered me.
Presenter asks
5:50Do you think that the standard of singing generally was so much higher than it is today?
The keepsakes
The book
Johann Peter Eckermann
if I had, for instance, some Goethebook and could argue when he has his talks with Ekoman and so on. So that would keep my mind going.
No, I on the whole I don't think so. I think the standard is higher now. But of course there has always been only a number of famous artists, you know, of really great artists who conquered the world. And that is just the same now.
Presenter asks
7:35When did you come back to London again after the war?
Well I made my return in 1922 in Queens Hall. And it was a most moving evening, really. Well, I I was afraid nobody would go and listen to German leader yet. But um my agent called at me at Southampton and said, you know, I want to tell you something. Queen's Hall sold out when I came from America, he told me. And then came this colossal reception, which is unforgettable. Makes me still get a goose flesh now. Yeah.
“I sang all my life, but I think I made my degree the first day when I came to school and couldn't do any writing or reading or anything. And when the teacher asked me what can you do, I burst out and said, I can sing. And then he said, All right, come and sing something and I Sing a children's song of the of the winter that you can do in the snow with about six or seven verses.”
“I think the standard is higher now.”
“I was afraid nobody would go and listen to German leader yet. … Queen's Hall sold out … And then came this colossal reception, which is unforgettable. Makes me still get a goose flesh now.”
“Because uh listening to them over and over again you also fi only find places which annoy you that you could have done better before. But there is one little record which has followed me through my whole career very successfully … I would like perhaps take this as a reminder of the times when I wasn't banned and had to go to the desert island.”