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Listening to the first one of the 10 cd's, from the box ,,Dutch
Masters - Het Puik van Zoete Kelen", I decided to mark the
recordings, which I like most. Aaltje Noordewier - Reddingius
got the first mark and there after followed the soprano To van
der Sluys - completely unknown to me at that moment. She appears
to be a pleasant surprise.She got the second mark.
At about the same period as the famous soprano Jo Vincent,
belongs the first appearance of To van der Sluys, a soprano with
very special qualities. The saying ,, As the tree, so the fruit"
applies certain very true to her. She is the grand-daughter of
the director of the ,,Nederlandsche Opera" of that time
and her predilection to the art of singing is completely the
her grand fathers nature. She studied singing - after her training
at the High School for Girls - with her aunt Caroline van der
Linden at Amsterdam, from whom she owes thanks for her full continued
music training. In 1923 she succeed for the secondary examination
of singing and piano.
Already quickly, she feels affection for the stage and from that
time on, she belongs to the most asked soloists in the great
concerts, Passion performances and oratorio. Later on she also
makes her way to the terrain of opera. With the Concertgebouw
Orchestra she performed regularly in the 2th and 4th symphony
of Mahler and in the 9th symphony of Beethoven, as well as under
Willem Mengelberg as Eduard van Beinum. Also abroad, they were
highly thought of her as guest. She performed many times in Germany
(Berlin, under Furtwängler), Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and
Switzerland. At the same time she was part of the ,,Hollandsch
Vocaal Kwartet" together with the tenor Louis van Tulder,
soprano Mia Peltenburg and the baritone Willem Ravelli. This
quartet has known many shapes: a.o. with soprano Jo Vincent,
soprano Helene Cals, tenor Evert Miedema, mezzo soprano Theodora
Versteegh and nearly always baritone Willem Ravelli. |
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 Cantata BWV 202:
Sich
üben im Lieden , 1939
Discography:
"Het Puik der zoete kelen", one hundred years
of Dutch vocal art. Philips Dutch Masters 464 385-2. This is
a 10cd set, composed by Hans Kerkhoff, mainly from VARA ( Dutch broadcasting company) archives. |
