CD 4 Track 1 An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) Text: Alois Jeitteles (1794-1858) Music: Beethoven Op. 98 When Beethoven set these six songs he created the very first, and still the only, true song cycle. Other composers wrote cycles, but the individual...
CD 3 Track 1 Der Engel (The Angel) Text: Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902) Music: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 1862 Der Engel and the following Im Treibhaus are from Wagner’s set of songs called Wesendonck Lieder, written to the words of the wife of one of his patrons....
Here are the translations and notes for CD 2 CD 2 Tracks 1 and 9 Ständchen (Serenade) Text: Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (1815–1894) Music: Richard Strauss Op. 17 No. 2 This is the most popular of the Lieder of Strauss, and one of Lehmann’s favorites. She included...
CD Index: This index-in-progress provides an almost complete listing of the Lehmann CDs (in no particular order…use “find” to locate something in particular) with references to the discography numbers in brackets at the end of each listing. These CDs...
This is the literate and personal results of the interview that Marcia Davenport had with Mme Lehmann. It was important in Lehmann’s American career, though she tried to disown the various portions of it that she believed were inaccurate.
As Octavian As Octavian Laughing Laughing with Windgassen at the reopening of the Vienna Opera 1955 San Francisco 1968 LL, Regine Crespin, Kurt Herbert Adler, San Francisco Opera 80th Birthday Celebration for Lehmann Bumbry Master Class LL, Bumbry, and another student...
