Rita Streich

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 15 July 1978

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Rita Streich.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Krusty Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1978, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast away as the soprano Rita Strike. The strike what are you doing in
0:37.6	London on this visit? On this visit I have a lead recital which includes a song where Schubert but also the first time in my life a group of the cycle of Schuman Frau and Leibn.
0:50.0	You come here pretty regularly there several times a year.
0:52.0	Oh yes I love to sing in London. I love here. You come here pretty regularly, there are several times a year.
0:53.0	Oh yes, I love the audience here and I really enjoy to work here.
0:59.0	We're moving you to a much smaller island than this, to a island and you have just eight records a very small
1:05.1	ration. What's the first one? I think on wings of song it's a more childish idea of this title but includes also this lovely Mendelssohn melody to round up the sense of singing happily. Happily. And the And leave a drue a drue at rinken,
1:49.0	and leave a drue at rinken, and trimes in it and rue. Primell.
1:55.0	and Prime and Prime and Sileggent Ra. Eglig entra. be able to try. Your own recording of Mendelssohn's on Wings of Song with Jeffrey Parsons at the piano.
2:30.8	And he's playing for you at your present concert.
2:32.6	Oh yes he's playing quite often from here I love him.
2:35.2	I've been looking up some cuttings about you.
2:37.2	Although your father was German you were born in Siberia how is that?
2:41.4	Yes I have a Russian mother and my father and my mother had to escape to Siberia.
2:48.5	The escape to Siberia? Yes. This was during the first war. Yes, yes.
2:53.0	And my mother tells me in her still broken German,
2:57.0	tells me that shortly after my birth,
3:02.0	the white ciwegis. my birth, the whites, I will just know landscape about taking me in the Schleten, in the Troik,
3:12.0	the trichka, in the trike, trike, the trike, in the sledge holding me in her arms and then one moment she told me they heard voices of the
3:22.2	loops, loops coming nearer, wolves, wolves, yes.
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