Rita Streich - The Cradle Songs & Folk Songs

180-gram LP reissue

Mastered from the original masters of Universal Music!

Plated and pressed at Pallas in Germany

Soprano Rita Streich is supported here by the Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir with Kurt Gaebel conducting members of The Orchestra of The Bavarian State Radio.

"This is a really beautiful record – in content, in singing, in accompaniment and in recording. For several years an earlier recital by Rita Streich was used by a number of my dealer friends as one of their favourite demonstration discs. This should now replace it. In addition to its other virtues it is a refreshingly original selection of songs that we are given... again and again I find an endearingly ‘hummable’ quality in the songs that I have not heard before. Every song is a winner. Rita Streich is splendidly supported in three or four of the songs by the sweet-toned Boys’ Choir of Regensburg Cathedral and the accompaniments, mostly for small groups of instruments which vary according to the needs of each song, are all the better for their lightness and deftness." — Gramophone

Features:
• Audiophile 180-gram Virgin Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas GmbH in Germany
• Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin
• Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music
• Analogphonic release

Musicians:
Rita Streich, soprano
Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir
Kurt Gaebel, conductor
Members of The Orchestra of The Bavarian State Radio