Les Angélus words are by Grégoire Le Roy (1862-1941). Cloches chrétiennes pour les matines, Sonnant au coeur d’espérer encore! Angelus angelisés d’aurore! Las! Où sont vos prières câlines? Vous étiez de si douce folies! Et chanterelles d’amours...
Lehmann can sing Christmas better than any of my best wishes, but still I send the hope that all your Christmases may be bright. These songs are from her final broadcast of December 1941; Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor; Germany had declared war on America and the U.S....
I. A Song for all Seas, all Ships Book XIII: Song of the Exposition [from verse 8] Behold, the sea itself, And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships; See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue, See, the steamers coming and...
Das Veilchen Ein Veilchen auf der Wiese stand, Gebückt in sich und unbekannt; Es war ein herzigs Veilchen. Da kam ein’ junge Schäferin Mit leichtem Schritt und muntrem Sinn Daher, daher, Die Wiese her, und sang. Ach! denkt das Veilchen, wär ich nur Die schönste Blume...
“In the summer of 1987 I heard that there was to be a special performance of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna Opera on Lotte Lehmann’s 100th birthday, February 27, 1988, followed by a lecture the next day by Marcel Prawy, of the Opera. I decided to go. Eric Hvølboll, a...
