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"The Trumpeter" (Nessler) & PACS007:"Father,
Mother, Sister, Brother" (Lortzing) |
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The
singer and actor Herbert Ernst Groh (1906-82) was one of
the most popular radio singers of the 30's and 40's, with an impressive
tenor voice that compared favourable with Richard Tauber.
During
his singing career he made numerous recordings and became well-known to
a wide public.
He began
studied singing in Milan and Munich, and in 1927 debuted in theatre in
Darmstadt. That same year he also made his first record. He joined up
with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk at the end of the 20's and therefound
his real metier and his greatest success; Herbert Ernst Groh became a
darling of the public in no time.
The opera
didn't play an important part in his career, his field of activity was
the radio - and from 1933 the talkies.
He made
his film debut with "Das Lied vom Glück" (1933),
it followed among others the productions "Schön ist es, verliebt
zu sein" (1934), "Casanova heiratet" (1939)
and "Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub" (1941). He also performed
numerous voice-overs for less gifted singing actors.
The
songs
The songs
here are listed as shown on the British Parlophone 78 from which they
were transferred. "Father, Mother..." is perhaps better
known as sung - "Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Bruder"
from the 1845 opera Undine by Gustav Albert Lortzing (1801-1851,
Germany); "The Trumpeter" might have been better titled
"Behüt dich Gott", and comes from the 1884
opera "Der Trompeter von Säckingen" by the Alsatian
composer Viktor Ernst Nessler.
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