Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A soprano who performed Schubert and Schumann lieder.
On the island
Eight records
I think on wings of song it's more of a childish idea of of this title, but includes also this lovely Mendelssohn melody to round up the sense of singing happily.
Choir of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Paris
I would love to take with me then the Lord's Prayer Choir of the of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Paris.
Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 "Linz" (closing passage)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Oh, some more sad, please. Lynn Symphony? and perhaps a closing passage.
I would like so much to hear Catherine Ferrier. I love this. Voice to hear.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Act I excerpt)
Oh, something I would love always to do this is singing melezonde.
Concierto de Aranjuez (opening)
John Williams with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim
Rodrigo. Uh I would like to take with um me one of this uh a a guitar concert.
This is going back a long way. Yes, but we love that music.
Oh, oh, I have started with one of my own singing. I would like to take the last record also my own singing, and then something which which has no words, uh vocalese, something uh you know, this sans sense, Naitiga la Rose.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:36What are you doing in London on this visit?
On this visit I have a little recital which includes the song by Schubert, but also the first time in my life a group of the cycle of Schumann Fraun, Lieber and Lehm.
Presenter asks
2:35Although your father was German, you were born in Siberia. How was that?
And um my father and my mother had to escape to Siberia. … Yes. And my my um mother tells me in her still broken German, tells me that, uh, shortly after my birth, Uh the white Siberia snow landscape about taking me in the schlitten, in the in the in the troika true in the sledge. … holding me in her arms and then One moment uh she told me they heard voices of the loops, loops coming nearer, wolves. Then she took me very, very, very strong in her arms, because in danger, probably they sometimes throw babies away. But she said, No, I hold you
Presenter asks
4:03How old were you when you left Russia?
Oh, this was just Isabebaby some months. But later then my mother was longing to see my grandmother again. And um we could get with difficult um to see my my family, my grandmother, my grandfather didn't live in my mom, and my uncle and aunt, in uh Mahatzkala, which is a city on the Kazbishemeyer. … And this i was a very exciting time for me as a young, young uh girl. Then I learned Russian very quick. I had always the other girls to to to play with, and it was a marvelous time of hospitality. And as it was three months, I have very Lovely remembrance of that time.
The keepsakes
The book
Malford
Oh, yes, one I remember I like very much Malford, the philosophical um Also practical advisors, it's a funny title, Der und Folk der Sterbens.
The luxury
Oh, I would love to paint have have the material. Yes, well some brushes and and paper. I have never done this, but I I'm dreaming of that, and there would be the time and would be perhaps the the the right, the the creative moment to do so. Maybe. And as I would also like very much to write, I would like to have much, much, much of paper and pencil.
Presenter asks
6:09When did you start having singing lessons?
Oh, very early. I had a m piano teacher, uh, Elisabeth Braun. She one time surprised me in my my um having lesson with her. Uh she invited a singer to hear me, you know, opera singer to hear me. I couldn't build up much fear because I didn't know about it. So suddenly there was someone and I had to sing for her in s in in school time. Actually this lady became my first teacher. She was a pupil of Marie Evgen herself. It was Paula Kloze. And I started to study uh singing with her, then came later to Anneberg and then to marry Ivogun herself.
Presenter asks
8:17Were you [in Berlin] when the Russians came?
Yes, I was there. We were mostly in the cellar, you know, because Everything was happening. But I must say I went mostly on on on uh clouds because I was happy that Anneberger was uh helping me, that she was my teacher. So when the sign of of the Serene came in and we we wished to go this the cellar, she said, You run first, you are a suc successor. … And there, down in the cellar, she had a little pipe. And she did and went, I get my lesson got my lessons.
Presenter asks
9:55What was the first role you sang then?
Amor in um Gluck or fail. … Yes. But my first big premiere was the Doll and Tales of Hoffman. This was the very uh great time of preparing and one of my I would say the first successful. Then I g got marvellous parts, all which came along, and I had the luck to sing in Berlin one time on all three opera houses.
“My my parents were so happy, happy, happy marriage. And the thing is that my father spoke Russian very well and they sang Russian songs. And so in my time of my young um young years I heard so much of Russian songs, so I started to sing with my parents together.”
“I really, I really was was uh uh very protected in a better world.”
“I am uh enormously interested to to pass uh my knowledge to young people.”