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This month: NATHALIE STUTZMANN Contralto/Conductor

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Schubert Winterreise Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Inger Södergren (piano)

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Doing was such an important thing for me; it was a song cycle I’d dreamed of recording all my life. I waited almost 20 years to approach it and this was exactly the right moment for me to do it. When you approach a work that has been done by so many great artists, I

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