and then tell me that that is not a great contralto, perhaps the greatest contralto you’ve ever heard. What warmth: what richness and depth!
Dame Janet, in this version, is just a little too much – just a little. The voice is also not quite as rich, deep and ‘full’, though the top notes are more true than most.
Then we have this very bad recording of the great Lotte Lehmann in the same Schubert piece – but the warmth and the richness still manages to shine through.
There is also the incomparable Victoria de los Angeles making a complete mull of the piece in this.
But then, if one wants, and I do, the completely silly, there is always Kunz being daft.
