LL Recordings in Print

Let's start with cassettes (also available as CDs).

• Lotte Lehmann, Songs of Schumann, Strauss, Hahn, Gounod, Sjoberg, and Balogh; RCA Victor Vocal Series 7809-4 RG and on CD, 7809-2-RG.
• The Vintage Collection; Operetta Volume One; among others, Lehmann in ensembles which include Tauber in excerpts from Der Ziguenerbaron and Die Fledermaus; BBC-7CR 716; as a CD: BBC-CD 716
• Lotte Lehmann: The Met Centenarians; MET 703; (catalog number RF03, on CD: RE03); arias and songs; available from the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Good sound and rare songs.
• Sunday Night Concert at the Met, includes "Ständchen" by Strauss sung by LL; a "MET" publication; order R56C for cassette and R56D for CD.
• An Old Met Christmas, includes Lehmann; another "MET" release on cassette R57C and CD R57D.

Other LPs are now out of print in the US but can be purchased through mail-order lists and at some record stores which carry "remainder" stock. The complete LP inventory of Voce, which includes two important Lehmann recordings of live song performances (VOCE 69 & 99), was recently sold and may now be available in US record stores which carry classical music and still have an LP section.

CDs which include Lehmann:

• Opera Arias: Lotte Lehmann; EMI: CDH 7610422. Good sound, easy availablity, good starter CD for those who have recently discovered Lehmann.
• The Young Lotte Lehmann: Preiser: 89302 (3 CDs), (see review in this Newsletter).
• Lotte Lehmann Sings Wagner and Richard Strauss; Pearl: GEMM CD9410 (arias and songs; also works by Offenbach, D'Albert, Giordano, Lehar, etc.)
• Lotte Lehmann with Jan Kiepura and Richard Tauber; Pearl: GEMM 9409; Puccini, Johann Strauss, Godard and songs by Jensen, and Werner.
• Lauritz Melchior Anthology VoL 4; Danacord: DACOCD 317-318; 2 CDs; Act I and excerpts from Act II of Die Walküre. LL recorded these with Melchior in 1935; Bruno Walter conducts. Good sound and Act II is impressive.
• Die Walküre; Angel: CDH 61020 (more easily available than the DACO); only Act I (one CD).
• Die Walküre; Act II; "live" (with sometimes poor sound); Legato Classics: LCD-133-1; Flagstad, Reiner conducting; 1936 performance.
• Der Rosenkavalier; LL's classic l933 recording available on Pearl: GEMM CD5 9365. Unfiltered, raw 78s.

If any readers note the publication of Lehmann's Der Rosenkavalier on Référence CD, or any other "in print" recordings not listed here, please let me know. Der Rosenkavalier, digitally remastered from original metal parts, was given a catalog number but wasn't yet published.

• Divas 1906--1935 with Lehmann's "Komm Hoffnung" from Beethoven's Fidelio; Nimbus CD NI 7802.
• Lohengrin by Wagner in a 1935 performance conducted by Bodanzky is available on Melodram's MEL 37049 set of 3 CDs; Cuts and incomplete sections; the third CD includes early LL acoustic recordings of Wagner arias.
• Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe with Bruno Walter at the piano is available on CBS Portrait Series MPK 4484Q. Previously we reported that this was only sold in Europe; it has also been sighted in New York City record stores. --GH