Lehmann CDs Available

Thanks to today's CD technology, Lehmann's voice rises again from the recent past clearer and brighter than on the original 78rpm recordings. Eight CDs are currently available (counting Danacord as two!). Amazingly, all have appeared in the past year, several in just the last few months, and the RCA disk just days ago! Two more will be out soon. If your local record store cannot obtain these for you, then you may want to try:

Record Hunter 507 5th Avenue New York, NY 10017; 212-697-8970 or 212-986-6077

Our friend Jerry Minkoff haunts the record shops of his Big City and kindly provided this address. They will special-order almost anything, he says. Jerry also recommends:

• Tower Records
  692 Broadway
  New York, NY 10012
  1-800-648-4844

On to LPs. We highly recommend the "Lebendige Vetgangenheit" (Living Past) series by Preiser Records of Vienna. There are six Lehmann LPs available: Lotte Lehmann I, Lotte Lehmann II etc. The numbers in order are: LV22, LV94, LV180; LV294, LV1336, LV1364. You may be able to order them through the dealers listed. They are also available directly from a Preiser distributor in the US.: Koch International 2700 Shames Dr. Westbury, NY 11590; 516 333-5800

Also look for two VOCE LPs (66 & 99) "Lotte Lehmann: Previously Unissued Selections from New Friends of Music Concerts." And BWS-729 "In Memoriam: Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976" from Discocorp, now called Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc., P.O. Box 771, Berkeley, CA 94701. They have a catalog. Another of their LP productions is No. 426, Wagner: Die Walküre, Act II, the Lehmann - Flagstad performance now available also on CD.

There are two LPs in the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera) LP series which contain one Lehmann cut each. The 1935 album (643333 AG) has Lehmann in a Meistersinger selection from that year. On the 1936 album (7623589) she is in a Rosenkavalier performance. All are previously unissued live perfotmances. Produced by Teletheater.

Jerry Minkoff turned up a double album tribute (R-1001a and R1002a) to Dr. Frieder Weissmann, (Ritornello Records, 54 East Lake Dr., Amityville, NY 11701), which has a sweetly scented Lehmann song: "Der Duft der eine schöne Frau begleitet." Also included is the Gypsy Baron finale with Lehmann andTauber. Gary Hickling adds a few more LPs and cassettes worth looking for: Great Voices of the Century: Seraphim (cassette) 4 XG-60113; Record of Singing (Vol 3): Seraphim (13 LPs) (Lehmann on one or two cuts) 6143 1M; Song Recital: Pelican 20009 (Farewell Recital at Town Hall); Die Walküre: highlights (probably first act only) Tur THS-65163.

And while we're mentioning currently available LPs don't forget the Lotte Lehmann Centennial Album (LRT 1-3), a 3-record set available from Lotte Lehmann Archives, c/o University Librarian, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA93106. The three records contain 44 newly-discovered songs wirh commentarary by Lehmann. She is accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky. These were made from 1941 Columbia radio transcriptions unearthed by Dr. Dan Jacobson in the Lehmann Archives during his work on the l988 Centennial Symposium. -JS