# Helen Donath

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Episode 163. Season Four Preview

Today Countermelody is in limbo: balanced between Seasons Three and Four. Over the past few months I’ve been planning the course of the upcoming season and this episode consists of musical tidbits (bocconcini, if you will) of some of the singers and themed series that I am planning for Season Four.…

Episode 176. Helen Donath

Today’s episode is a celebration of the Texas-born, German-assimilated soprano Helen Donath. Very few singers can boast of a career lasting more than 50 years which yielded such consistently superb vocalism and artistry. Donath began as a soubrette with lyric-coloratura capabilities which blossomed…

Episode 177. Great Singers at Twilight

For the last episode of 2022, I begin a series of episodes which was one of the reasons I began Countermelody in the fall of 2019: a celebration of great singing from great singers in the late years of their lives and careers. In the early years of the recording industry, a long-retired artist such…

Sounds Classical - August 31

with Ian Johnston 02:01 PM MENDELSSOHN Overture Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage Op 27 The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Wolfgang Sawallisch 02:15 PM MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 In C Major K467 Annie Fischer, Piano With The Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted By Wolfgang Sawallisch 02:46 PM SCHU…

Episode 300. Helen Donath Revisited

Episode 300 of Countermelody is upon us, and I have chosen today to bring you the German-American soprano Helen Donath in all her glory, performing Lieder of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert, the vast majority accompanied by her husband, German conductor, pianist, and scholar Klaus D…

Episode 382. Eine Janowitzische Geburtstagfeier

If you “get” Gundula Janowitz, then you really get her, and this birthday tribute will be a delectable treat. If, however, you don’t get her, or don’t think that you get her, you might want to give this episode a try, anyway, for it focuses on her work as a Lieder singer. It is my contention that s…

Episode 390. Donath Sings Strauss

Beloved Countermelody favorite Helen Donath celebrated her 85th birthday on 10 July. In honor of that milestone, I once again celebrate her (which I’ve done so often, but I don’t think anyone is complaining!) This episode features the venerated soprano singing the music of Richard Strauss. In 1976 …

Episode 397. Anna Reynolds Sings Bach and Mahler

As many of you know, my beloved mother died this past week. I’ve been trying for two days now to put together a memorial episode that would do justice to the many divergent aspects of the woman that she was. Alas, I have not yet been able to rise to the challenge, so instead, I offer a recently pub…

Episode 417. Hail, Queens!

Okay, I confess that the title of this week’s episode is intentionally misleading, but if I told you what it actually was outright, you might not listen, and that would be a great loss! On Monday I celebrated Larry Kert for World AIDS Day, and today, I have made a selection of musical settings of t…

Opera 'The Turn of the Screw' by BRITTEN + Nocturne - March 18

Opera with Yvonne Schwerdt  BRITTEN "The Turn of the Screw" Philip Langridge, tenor; Helen Donath, soprano; Robert Tear, tenor; Heather harper, soprano; Members of the Orch. of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Cond., Sir Colin Davis  Wikipedia Nocturne with Yvonne Schwerdt  HUMMEL Introduc…