Summary: On May 22, 1986, the BBC produced an episode in their series called “Singer’s Choice” about German bass-baritone Hans Hotter. The narrator discusses beginning of his international career in 1947, his Italian repertoire, his beginnings which lead to his debut in Hamburg in 1937, his imposing physicality, his wide range of emotional gifts and his equally accomplished career on the recital stage. The listener will hear an excerpt from the Brahms Requiem, Pagliacci, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Loewe’s Erlkönig, Schubert’s Im Frühling, an excerpt from Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
