Das Kind in Dir

An enemy of fashion and glitz who shunned cocktails and society dinners, Wolfgang Sawallisch was a humble, retiring man whose life was wholly dedicated to music and music alone. Behind what might seem like a well-worn cliché of the "honest man", he was surely one of the greatest artists of his generation. An exceptional pianist, he would sometimes accompany his friend Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau through memorable nights dedicated to Schubert's great cycles. A conductor, he knew the whole repertoire by heart, not only working with an orchestra but also taking to the piano with all the singers. He was a Kapellmeister in the most elevated sense of the term.

An enemy of fashion and glitz who shunned cocktails and society dinners, Wolfgang Sawallisch was a humble, retiring man whose life was wholly dedicated to music and music alone. Behind what might seem like a well-worn cliché of the "honest man", he was surely one of the greatest artists of his generation. An exceptional pianist, he would sometimes accompany his friend Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau through memorable nights dedicated to Schubert's great cycles. A conductor, he knew the whole repertoire by heart, not only working with an orchestra but also taking to the piano with all the singers. He was a Kapellmeister in the most elevated sense of the term.

Rita Streich (born 18 December 1920 in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia, died 1987) was one of the most significant coloratura sopranos of the post-war period.
Rita Streich moved to Germany with her parents during her childhood, where she grew up bilingual, something that was extremely helpful during her later career. Among her teachers were Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender, Erna Berger, and Maria Ivogün.

To listen to these operas is to enter a magical world. Seriously: Rimsky-Korsakov was the grand master of the Russian fairy tale opera, charmingly characterized, brilliantly colorful, eccentrically constructed theater works that exist in their own truly magical musical world. In this four opera set, two of the four works are based on a Russian fairy tale…

Katja Maria Werker - Mitten Im Sturm
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 273 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Stockfisch # SFR 357.6074.2 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: Folk, Rock | Style: Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter

…Wer meint, im Singer/Songwriter-Genre gäbe es nichts Neues mehr zu hören, sollte sich dieser Scheibe widmen. Das Album ist in allen Belangen eine Offenbarung und zeitlos obendrein. Bei allen tollen Songs hat sich ganz besonders "Dreh den Spieß um" in mein Herz gebohrt. Katja Maria Werkers Werk ist die Vollendung ihrer Träume und gleichzeitig ein Start in eine andere, sehr hohe musikalische Sphäre.

The artistry of Rita Streich presented in this multi-disc set represents an art that in all likelihood would not return: the Viennese school of coloratura and lyrical singing.