Frances Yeend
Frances Yeend (1913-2008) was an American soprano, active in opera, concert music and broadcast performance. She sang with major American orchestras and at the Metropolitan Opera.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Beethoven, Mahler and Bruckner-related performances with Koussevitzky and Bruno Walter.
Yeend’s singing combined lyric brightness with the discipline required by large choral-symphonic repertory. Her voice could...
MAHLER Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
BRUCKNER Te Deum
Live and studio recordings, 1948 & 1953
Total duration: 1hr 43:10
Nadine Conner, soprano
Jean Watson, contralto
Frances Yeend, soprano
Martha Lipton, contralto
David Lloyd, tenor
Mack Harrell, baritone
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Westminster Choir (Dr John Finley Williamson, director)
conducted by Bruno Walter
MAHLER Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, “Symphony of a Thousand”
Live recording, Carnegie Hall, New York, 9 April 1950
Total duration: 1hr 17:50
Frances Yeend, Uta Graf, Camilla Williams, Martha Lipton
Louise Bernhardt, Eugene Conley, Carlos Alexander, George London
Westminster Choir
Schola Cantorum of New York
Public School No. 12 Boys’ Chorus
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Studio recording, 1947
Total duration: 68:40
Eunice Alberts contralto
David Lloyd tenor
James Pease bass
Berkshire Music Festival Chorus
Serge Koussevitzky, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
