Gundula Janowitz; “VIER LETZTE LIEDER“; (Haitink LIVE); Richard Strauss

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================== Gundula Janowitz--soprano Bernard Haitink--conductor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 1968 ============== “Gundula Janowitz (born 2 August 1937)[1] is an Austrian lyric soprano singer of operas, oratorios, lieder, and concerts. She is one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century and was pre-eminent in the 1960s and 1970s. Janowitz was born in Berlin, but grew up in Graz, Austria, where she became a naturalised Austrian.[2] She studied at the Graz Conservatory in Austria,[3] and had already begun to sing at the highest level by the end of the 1950s (Haydn’s The Creation, with Herbert von Karajan in 1960). In 1959, Karajan engaged her as Barbarina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Vienna State Opera, of which she became a permanent member in 1962. During the 1960s and 1970s, Janowitz became one of the most popular singers in her field i