A belated comment to Thomas Stern on the previous post:

According to the Paul Jenkins biography of Richard Dyer-Bennet, that long-playing vinyl album of Aksel/Axel Schiotz was recorded about the year 1960. I took the trouble to look this up, knowing Schiotz's tragic career turn, and being acquainted with the recordings of both singers. My surmise is correct.

Dyer-Bennet became acquainted with Schiotz through a recording. This Danish native discovered as an adult that he had a singing voice, he was singled out from a chorus. Already well educated, he went about getting training in classical singing. This was between the two wars, and by the time Denmark was troubled by the Second war, Schiotz had a career going; he supported the resistance through recordings and, I seem to recall, radio broadcasts (elsewhere I have had to look up Schiotz's story).   The recordings, like the rest of his career, stopped when Schiotz was in his vocal prime; he sang tenor, not the big Italianate operatic tenor roles, but Mozart which is something else again, and he was masterful in the oratorio repertoire of Handel, Haydn, et al. He also sang Lieder with an endearing Danish accent.

But when Dyer-Bennet went looking for the artist whose recordings had so impressed him, he uncovered the tragedy, already well-known to those of Schiotz's circle. The Dane's life had been saved by surgery on the acoustic nerve, where there was a tumor. Many years later this sort of brain-nerve trouble would be the death of him. For now, it was merely the death of his career, as the resulting nerve damage made neuro-muscular control of his jaw muscles hopelessly flawed.

Schiotz did pursue therapy and rehab with enough success to teach, rather than perform; he could vocalize in the baritone range, the tenor high notes were a thing of the past. Dyer-Bennet must have been a stubborn fellow because he was resolved to record Schiotz, regardless, and so he did. I suspect that it is very hard to find this recording anywhere, since it documents an artist who can no longer perform in public and whose singing will never again be what it was. At least, Schiotz and Dyer-Bennet remained lifelong friends.