Live-performance tapes to be copied for Lehmann Archives

Some of the most important material gathered on our recent Lehmann Project in Germany and Austria will be sent to us by the sound archivist, Jürgen Grundheber. Among the items he will try to duplicate are: a complete Die Walküre from 16 Jan. 1937, and excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier of 1938. He has access to better (unfiltered) versions of Die Meistersinger and to recorded excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier of 1936, some of which have appeared in the Belvedere Wiener Staatsoper series (See the article on Lehmann records in print.)

Herr Grundheber was also helpful in providing clues to sources of Lehmann recordings both in Europe and America.

Another recorded sound archivist who will be providing the Lehmann Archive with precious live documentation is Gottfried Cervenka. Here is the list of tapes he will try to duplicate: Fidelio (Salzburg): Toscanini, Gallos, Kipnis; Otello: Sabata, Pistor, Jerger, 1935; Der Rosenkavalier:

Knappertsbusch, Novotna, Schumann, 1936; Die Meistersinger (Salzburg): Toscanini, 1936, (we have this only in the very badly distorted short-wave version); Die Walküre: Völker, 1933, and Tannhäuser: Mayr, Kalenberg, 1933.

-GH