Else Paaske. A Portrait: Live and Studio Recordings 1967-1983
3/6/2007, 60 Tracks, 2:28:47
Featuring
Else Paaske
Peter Arnold Heise
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
Claude Debussy
Johannes Brahms
Alban Berg
Max Reger
Johann Sebastian Bach
Francis Poulenc
Robert Schumann
Gustav Mahler
Ib Nørholm
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Performer Biography
Else Paaske's initial singing lessons were given by her mother, Ellen Paaske, who was a concert singer.
Interpretation
Else Paaske's interpretations of Danish romance tradition, with its strophic structure, are characterized by a special synthesis of an alto's sonority and a mezzo-soprano's shimmering harmonics.
Performer Biography
Else Paaske studied at the Jutland Music Academy with Professor Peer Birch, and later in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Vienna with Eugenie Ludwig, Christa Ludwig's mother and a renowned singing professor.
Recording & Production
The concert recordings on this album, particularly from Vienna's Konzerthaus in 1973, showcase a unique blend of voice and piano, accentuated by the generous acoustics and the lifting quality of the Bösendorfer piano.
Interpretation
Early recordings of Else Paaske from 1966-1967 show a shimmering, clear, and intense voice where each note is chiselled and radiant, combining into aesthetically integrated melodic phrases.
Performer Biography
Despite her dramatic confidence in performing Heise's song cycle 'Gudrun's Grief', Else Paaske decided against a career in opera after a year at the Royal Theatre's Opera School, choosing instead lieder and oratorio singing.
Performer Biography
Else Paaske's career began in 1955 with her first public performance at a Christmas concert in Jutland when she was 14 years old.
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