Lisa Della Casa RIP

[amateur51]

That Strauss Four Last Songs from 1953 with Karl Böhm amd the VPO is one of the discs reserved for that desert island. Magical.

No less magical is the Mahler 4 with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago SO from 1958 in what is a truly inspired disc that hasn't had it's due.

I played both of these tonight.

Well recommended, Petrushka @ Mahler symphony no 4. - one of the few recordings where the voice and the singing match the words (and I presume the composer's intentions).

[aeolium]

An excerpt here from Paul Czinner's film of the 1954 Salzburg Don Giovanni with Furtwängler conducting and Lisa della Casa singing Donna Elvira's Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upg6wwaS2cs

[Barbirollians]

Her Mozart opera performances with Erich Kleiber , Bohm and Krips are all now available very cheaply from Decca and wonderful they are too .

[Barbirollians]

Been listening to the della Casa /Bohm tonight . I think it has begun to replace his EMI recording in my affections. The Soave s'il vento is beyond compare.