David Harris talks about a German soprano whose reputation in this country depends entirely on the gramophone records she made in the late nineteen-twenties
Examples in the programme include Senta's Ballad (Der fliegende Hollander) (Wagner), Morgen (Richard Strauss ). Serenade with women's chorus, D.921 (Schubert), Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (A German Requiem) (Brahms)