Latest CD's

We try to keep our readership up-to-date on all the CDs available. It is a daunting task, for not only are there many "Lotte Lehmann" CDs, but there are also many on which a single LL aria or song is published. Let us know if you notice something available that we have missed! Thanks.

Lauritz Melchior in Wagner, Verdi, Leoncavallo with Lotte Lehmann & Kirsten Flagstad. LL joins Melchior in two excerpts from Wagner's Die Walküre taken from the famous live broadcast from San Francisco with Reiner conducting. Legato Classics: LCD-133-1

Met Stars in the New World includes Caruso, Tibbett, Steber, etc., singing music from the Americas---folk songs, hymns, patriotic and sentimental songs. LL sings "God Bless America" by Berlin from the 1947 recordings made for the MGM movie "Big City". Met: CD: #04247 or Cassette: #04348.

Tauber is represented by an operetta CD that includes LL in the fabled 1928 recordings of Fledermaus ensembles. EMI: CDH7-69787-2

Immortal Voices of the Vienna Opera features LL in the 1927 recording of "Oh sei Er gut, Quinquin" from Der Rosenkavalier. Other great opera singers from the past include the expected Maria Jeritza, Alfred Piccaver, Richard Mayr etc. and the lesser known Wilhelm Rode, Emil Schipper and Alexander Sved. This CD is released by "Lebendige Vergangenheit" 89999.