soulpope "Ever Since The World Ended, I Don`t Get Out As Much"
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Von „Leiheturm“ …. :
The recording conditions could hardly have been more dramatic. In the bleak mid-war winter of 1942-43, the lirico-spinto soprano Hilde Konetzni learnt a romantic song programme with Josef Krips as her accompanist and mentor (Hilde Konetzni is best known as the Sieglinde in two complete recordings of the Valkyrie under Wilhelm Furtwängler). The Nazis‘ policies of “Aryanization” had resulted in Krips being banned from working. So his coaching activities had to be carried out “underground”, under a constant threat to his life. These private recordings were made by Hermann May, the then sound engineer of the Vienna State Opera ….
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