Else Rykens (soprano)
The Laurance Turner String Quartet:
Laurance Turner (violin)
Walter Price (violin)
Aubrey Appleton (viola)
Jack Shmeboume (violoncello)
Else Rykens was born in Holland and studied at Amsterdam and in Switzerland. She has devoted herself chiefly to the singing of German Lieder and has won success in her own country, Germany, France, and England. Among her more important engagements she has sung with Mengelberg's Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris, and in England she has been heard many times in public recitals and at broadcast concerts. During the fast few months Miss Rykens has appeared at two concerts under Mengelberg, in which she sang modern Dutch songs, and, what is particularly interesting to British listeners, she has given the first performance in Holland and Brussels of a number of William Walton's songs.