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Lotte Lehmann "Frauenliebe und Leben" Works by Schuamnn, Brahms, Schubert & Sacred Songs Recorded 1927-1932 Download ID: 265038 (Duration 54'55") Restoration by HTS Studio for Hänssler Classic COMES WITH ENGLISH NOTES & COVERS

Du Ring an meinen Finger Schumann

Richard Strauss made a connection between the success of his operas with her collaboration. Giacomo Puccini was moved to tears by her performance as his sister Angelica. Thomas Mann referred to her simply as »Frau Sonne« (»Mrs. Sunshine«) What says it all is this: there were singers with better technique and more breath control, but only a few who exuded through their singing so much warmth, so much passion, so much joy of life. Lotte Lehmann's records - luckily there are many - belong to the most effective (and least dangerous) anti-depressives that have ever been on the market.

Some purists will wrinkle up their noses at this collection of work: Schumann, Schubert, and Brahms songs with salon orchestra accompaniment? Even Lehmann later distanced herself from these recordings. But what does it matter how sweet or sour the arrangement, when Mrs. Sunshine is singing? Those who are still left cold should consider the historical situation: When Lotte Lehmann made these recordings, orchestral arrangements of songs were just as common as the mixing of popular arias and songs at singers' solo recitals. The. »pure« Song Recital was at that time the exception (such as by »specialists« like Julia Culp or Elena Gerhardt), and it is only after the pioneering work of the Lied pianist Michael Raucheisen and the record producer Walter Legge that the era of salon arrangements came to an end.

Collectors won't be scared away in any case; for them it is enticing to compare these recordings to later versions by Lehmann; for example Frauenliebe und -Ieben with the Columbia recording (Bruno Waiter, 1941) and the Town Hall Recital (Paul Ulanowsky, 1946). And for those who have not yet, or only minimally experienced the Song Artist Lehmann, they will see how much even the »chaste« art of Song wins when the voice lilts with the great sensuality of singers like Lehmann. Walter Legge said that he »never heard a virginal sound out of her«; »Lehmann's voice wasn't huge, but is was like a 'double bed' voice, fully inviting, full of promise, tender, all-embracing warmth« (On and off the record, London, 1982).

Excerpted from enclosed sleevenotes, Thomas Voigt © 2004

Track Listing:

1. Seit ich ihn gesehen - Schumann - Frauenliebe und -leben
2. Er der Herrlichste von allen
3. Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben
4. Du Ring an meinen Finger
5. Helft mir, Schwestern
6. Süsser Freund
7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
8. Nun hast dur mir den ersten Schmerz getan
9. An die Musik - Schubert
10. Du bist die Ruh
11. Der Tod und das Mädchen
12. Geheimes
13. Vergebliches Ständchen - Brahms
14. Sandmännchen
15. Die Mainacht
16. Von ewiger Liebe
17. O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden - Geistliche Lieder (Sacred Songs)
18. Christi Mutter stand in Schmerzen
19. Aus tiefer Not
20. Ach, bleib mit deiner Gnade
21. Jesus meine Zuversicht
22. Wir glauben all an einen Gott

Please note: This is not a Pristine Audio historic restoration.

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