{"id":14219,"date":"2024-05-25T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=14219"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:46:26","slug":"episode-263-contralto-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/episode-263-contralto-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 263. Contralto Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 263.  Contralto Central<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1145-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-normal-icon-size 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srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kathleen-Ferrier.jpg 560w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kathleen-Ferrier-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the first in my long-promised series on the contralto voice! The contralto is a <em>rara avis<\/em> in the today\u2019s opera and classical music scene, and yet back in the day, there seem to have been more of them before the public. And of course contraltos have always been a powerful presence on the popular music scene, whether in blues, disco, jazz, or as purveyors of the Great American Songbook. There is no way that I can cover all of the great (and near-great) contraltos in recorded history, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not going to try! Today\u2019s selections span a wide chronological range , even for <em>this<\/em> podcast: nearly 120 years, and include voices both fleet and monolithic (and sometimes both). We begin with a tribute to the late Polish coloratura contralto Ewa Podle\u015b and along with way we hear the most famous contraltos like Kathleen Ferrier and Marian Anderson, and jazz and pop contraltos like Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson. We also sample singers from the earlier twentieth century such as Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Cloe Elmo, Clara Butt, Eugenia Mantelli, Kerstin Thorborg, and Sigrid On\u00e9gin (about whom I spill some <em>major <\/em>tea!) Throughout the episode are sprinkled some of the most beautiful voices of any kind that I have ever heard: the Scottish Caroline Kaart, the Romanian Florica Cristofereanu, the Czech V\u011bra Soukupov\u00e1, the Dutch Aafje Heynis, the French Germaine Cernay, the British Norma Procter, and the Russian Valentina Levko. And if like me you have despaired of ever hearing another true contralto again in our lifetime, we hear in young Jasmin White cause for rejoicing. And if your favorites are not heard today, fear not, for this is the tip of the iceberg: many more great singers will follow when the series continues in two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florence-Kopleff.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florence-Kopleff.jpg 533w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florence-Kopleff-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Traditional Spanish, arr. Robert Parker, Alice Parker: La virgen lava pa\u00f1ales. Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw, The Robert Shaw Chorale [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eva-Podles.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eva-Podles.png 900w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eva-Podles-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eva-Podles-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Christoph Willibald Gluck, Pierre-Louis Moline [after Ranieri de&#8217; Calzabigi]: Amour, viens rendre \u00e0 mon \u00e2me (<em>Orph\u00e9e et Euridice<\/em>). Ewa Podle\u015b, Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al [live Festival International de Lanaudi\u00e8re 19.VII.1999]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Marian-Anderson-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Marian-Anderson-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Marian-Anderson-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Marian-Anderson-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Marian-Anderson.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Franz Schubert, Matthias Claudius: Der Tod und das M\u00e4dchen, D.531. Marian Anderson, Kosti Vehanen [1936]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ferrier.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ferrier.png 821w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ferrier-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ferrier-768x748.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Peter Warlock [n\u00e9 Philip Heseltine], John Fletcher: Sleep. Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone [BBC 05.VI.52]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eugenia-Mantelli-671x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eugenia-Mantelli-671x1024.png 671w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eugenia-Mantelli-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Eugenia-Mantelli.png 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gioachino Rossini, Cesare Sterbini [after Pierre Beaumarchais]: Una voce poco fa (<em>Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/em>). Eugenia Mantelli [ca. 1905]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cloe-Elmo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cloe-Elmo.png 594w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cloe-Elmo-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Francesco Cilea, Arturo Colautti, [after Eug\u00e8ne Scribe, Ernest Legouv\u00e9]: Acerba volutt\u00e0 (<em>Adriana Lecouvreur<\/em>). Clo\u00eb Elmo, Armando La Rosa Parodi, Orchestra Sinfonica dell&#8217;EIAR [1941]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt-657x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt-768x1198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt-985x1536.jpg 985w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clara-Butt.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Edward Elgar, Richard Garnett: Where Corals Lie (<em>Sea Pictures<\/em>, Op. 37\/4). Clara Butt [1912]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cassandra-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cassandra-Wilson.jpg 780w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cassandra-Wilson-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Cassandra-Wilson-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Webb: Wichita Lineman. Cassandra Wilson [2002]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Helen-Watts2-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Helen-Watts2-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Helen-Watts2-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Helen-Watts2-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Helen-Watts2.png 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Johann Sebastian Bach: Widerstehe doch der S\u00fcnde, BWV 54. Helen Watts, Thurston Dart, Philomusica of London [1958]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo-651x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo-768x1209.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo-976x1536.jpg 976w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Florica-Cristo.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gaetano Donizetti, Eug\u00e8ne Scribe [after Alfonse Royer, Gustave Va\u00ebz; Italian version by Francesco Jannetti]: O mio Fernando (<em>La favorita<\/em>). Florica Cristofereanu [ca. 1930]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kerstin-Thorborg.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kerstin-Thorborg.png 701w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kerstin-Thorborg-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Wagner: Weiche, Wotan, weiche! (<em>Das Rheingold<\/em>). Kerstin Thorborg, Karl Riedel, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra [1940]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Valentina-Levko.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14531\" style=\"width:572px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Valentina-Levko.jpg 437w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Valentina-Levko-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mikhail Glinka, Valerian Shirkov [after Alexander Pushkin]: Ratmir&#8217;s Romance (<em>Ruslan und Lyudmila<\/em>). Valentina Levko, Boris Khaikin, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater [ca. 1964]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Soukoupova-806x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Soukoupova-806x1024.png 806w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Soukoupova-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Soukoupova-768x976.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Soukoupova.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gustav Mahler, Friedrich R\u00fcckert: Nun will die Sonn&#8217; so hell aufgeh&#8217;n (<em>Kindertotenlieder<\/em>). V\u011bra Soukupov\u00e1, V\u00e1clav Neumann, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heynis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heynis.jpg 696w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Heynis-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alphons Diepenbrock, Charles Baudelaire: Les chats. Aafje Heynis, Felix de Nobel [Radio Nederland 01.V.63]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Little-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Little-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Little-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Little-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Vera-Little.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Traditional Spiritual, arr. Hall Johnson: My Good Lord Done Been Here. Vera Little, Andr\u00e8s Wheatley [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Schumann-Heink.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Schumann-Heink.jpg 534w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Schumann-Heink-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles Gounod, \u00c9mile Augier: \u00d4 ma lyre immortelle (<em>Sapho<\/em>). Ernestine Schumann-Heink [1909]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DAlvarez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DAlvarez.jpg 737w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DAlvarez-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy [after Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e]: Pr\u00e8s des remparts de S\u00e9ville (<em>Carmen<\/em>). Marguerite D&#8217;Alvarez [1926]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Germaine-Cernay-659x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Germaine-Cernay-659x1024.png 659w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Germaine-Cernay-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Germaine-Cernay.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jules Massenet, \u00c9douard Blau, Georges Hartmann, Paul Milliet [after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Va, laisse couler mes larmes (<em>Werther<\/em>). Germaine Cernay, Orchestra conducted by Gustave Clo\u00ebz [1928]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sigrid-Onegin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sigrid-Onegin.png 555w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sigrid-Onegin-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Giacomo Meyerbeer, Eug\u00e8ne Scribe, \u00c9mile Deschamps [after Voltaire]: \u00d4 pr\u00eatres de Baal (<em>Le proph\u00e8te<\/em>). Sigrid On\u00e9gin, Orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon [1929]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"928\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Jasmin-White.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Jasmin-White.jpg 928w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Jasmin-White-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Jasmin-White-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Margaret Bonds, Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Jasmin White, Philippe Riga [live Brussels 24.V.23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Shannon-Bolin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Shannon-Bolin.png 712w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Shannon-Bolin-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Arnold Sundgaard: Cedars Are Growing. Shannon Bolin, Milton Kaye [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Norma-Procter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14543\" style=\"width:597px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Norma-Procter.jpg 482w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Norma-Procter-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Traditional British, arr. Herbert Hughes: How deep in love am I. Norma Procter, Alec Redshaw [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CKaart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CKaart.jpg 611w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CKaart-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Traditional Scots, Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose. Caroline Kaart, Cor Lemaire [1964]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Nina-Simone.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Nina-Simone.png 816w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Nina-Simone-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Nina-Simone-768x779.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where the Time Goes. Nina Simone [live New York 26.X.1969]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 263. 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href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sandy Dennis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sapho (Gounod)<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sea Pictures<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Shannon Bolin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sigrid Onegin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Spirituals<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Thurston Dart<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">V\u00e1clav Neumann<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Valentina Levko<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Valerian Shirkov<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Vera Little<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">V\u011bra Soukupov\u00e1<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Voltaire<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-music\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Werther<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Aafje Heynis<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Adriana Lecouvreur<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alec Redshaw<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alec Wilder<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alexander Pushkin<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alphons Diepenbrock<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Andr\u00e8s Wheatley<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Armando La Rosa Parodi<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arnold Sundgaard<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Boris Khaikin<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Carmen<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Caroline Kaart<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Cassandra Wilson<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Cesare Sterbini<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Charles Baudelaire<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Charles Gounod<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Christoph Willibald Gluck<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Clara Butt<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Clo\u00eb Elmo<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Cor Lemaire<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Das Rheingold<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">\u00c9douard Blau<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Edward Elgar<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">\u00c9mile Augier<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">\u00c9mile Deschamps<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ernestine Schumann-Heink<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Eug\u00e8ne Scribe<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Eugenia Mantelli<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ewa Podle\u015b<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Felix de Nobel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Florence Kopleff<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Florica Cristofereanu<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Folk Songs<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Francesco Cilea<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Franz Schubert<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Frederick Stone<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Friedrich R\u00fcckert<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gaetano Donizetti<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Georges Bizet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Georges Hartmann<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Germaine Cernay<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Giacomo Meyerbeer<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gioachino Rossini<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gustav Mahler<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gustave Clo\u00ebz<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hall Johnson<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Helen Watts<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Henri Meilhac<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Herbert Hughes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jasmin White<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jimmy Webb<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Johann Sebastian Bach<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">John Fletcher<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jules Massenet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kathleen Ferrier<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kerstin Thorborg<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kindertotenlieder<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kosti Vehanen<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">La favorita<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Langston Hughes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Le Prophete<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Margaret Bonds<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Marguerite D\u2019Alvarez<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Marian Anderson<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Matthias Claudius<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mikhail Glinka<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Milton Kaye<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nina Simone<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Norma Procter<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Orph\u00e9e et Euridice<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Paul Milliet<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Peter Warlock<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Philippe Riga<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pierre 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