Episode 421. Elly sings Schubert [Jane’s Divas III]
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Today, December 19, would have been my late mother’s 90th birthday. These past three months since her death have been so emotionally draining for me, and would have been even without the shitshow that the world has become in that time. On the other hand, I have been able to appreciate more fully the complicated bond that she and I shared. At the time of her death, I did two memorial tributes to “Jane’s Divas” and today, in honor of her birthday, I present a singer that we both adored, the Dutch doyenne of art song, Elly Ameling. And because I’ve offered so many Elly Ameling episodes already on Countermelody, I thought it completely fitting to celebrate our beloved Elly in the repertoire in which she had virtually no peer: the Lieder of Franz Schubert. I’ve chosen a setlist of some of my favorite Schubert songs, in performances ranging over nearly 30 years of Ameling’s career. And leave it to me, there are more than a few surprises to be encountered herein!
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
All selections are by Franz Schubert and feature Elly Ameling, soprano.
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis: Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D. 300. Jörg Demus [1965]
Matthäus von Collin: Nacht und Träume, D. 827. Dalton Baldwin [1973]
Johann Gabriel Seidl: Im Freien, D. 880. Dalton Baldwin [1973]
Karl Gottfried von Leitner: Die Sterne, D. 939. Dalton Baldwin [1973]
Johann Mayrhofer: Abendstern, D. 806. Dalton Baldwin [1984]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: An den Mond, D. 296. Rudolf Jansen [live Tanglewood 02.VII.1987]
Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze: Im Frühling, D. 882. Irwin Gage [1972]
Karl Lappe: Der Einsame, D. 800. Dalton Baldwin [live Dutch Radio 28.IV.1974]
Friedrich von Schlegel: Das Mädchen, D. 652. Dalton Baldwin [1973]
August von Platen: Die Liebe hat gelogen, D. 751. Dalton Baldwin [1973]
Unknown Librettist: Welche Nacht hab’ ich erlebt (Die Bürgschaft, D. 435). Edo de Waart, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra [1975]
Caroline Louise von Klencke: Heimliches Lieben, D. 922. Rudolf Jansen [live Radio France 28.I.1985]
Jacob Nikolaus Craigher de Jachelutta: Die junge Nonne, D. 828. Rudolf Jansen [live Radio France 28.I.1985]
Friedrich Rückert: Daß sie hier gewesen, D. 775. Rudolf Jansen [live Dutch Radio 15.V.1982]
Adam Storck [after Walter Scott]: Raste, Krieger, D. 837. Jörg Demus [1970]
Anonymous [possibly Matthias Claudius]: Wiegenlied, D. 498. Hermann Uhlhorn [1959]
Wilhelm Müller: Der Frühling will kommen (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965). Jean-Marc Volta, Rudolf Jansen [live Radio France 28.I.1985]
