![]() I can’t remember the recording I heard first – her light-as-air performance of Schubert’s Seligkeit, her deeply-felt St Matthew Passion, her creamy Mozart Concert Arias, or her hilarious rendition of Cole Porter’s ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’ – but my love of her voice has never faded. Though I never heard her live, Elly Ameling was the patron saint of my musical youth. ![]() Let the show begin…īorn in Rotterdam in 1933, the legendary Dutch soprano charmed audiences worldwide with her Lieder recitals for over four decades, before retiring to teach. Now, you’ll find out which have meant the most to them, excited them and moved them. Many names, of course, were instantly recognisable, a large number no longer alive and several were what you might call ‘forgotten gems’. ![]()
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