HMV, 1937-38 · Great 78 ProjectPamina on the 1937 Berlin discs that play on this site. Critics spent decades searching for words for her floating pianissimo; the shortest description is side 24, Ach, ich fühl's.
She stayed with the Berlin State Opera through war and partition, singing on until 1957 and living to ninety-six. Collectors still trade stories about her Pamina: Beecham drove the 1937 sessions hard, and what survived is a softness that no studio trick has reproduced since.