COMPOSERS: Flotow,Kienzl,Korngold,Meyerbeer
LABELS: EMI
ALBUM TITLE: Joseph Schmidt
CATALOGUE NO: CHS 7 64673 2 ADD
The ‘pocket Caruso’, Joseph Schmidt, alas succumbed to exhaustion at a refugee camp at Gyrenbad. Schmidt was an agile, dark-textured tenor and ideal for the likes of Flotow’s aria ‘Ach so fromm’, Korngold’s ‘Glück, das mir verblieb’, and various lieder.