Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider

On this CD:

1. Armide, opera in 5 acts, Wq. 45 Ah! si la liberté
Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Performed by Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

2. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Or sai chi l'onore
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

3. Fidelio, opera, Op. 72 Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin?
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

4. Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c Heil dir, Sonne!
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by Berlin State Opera Orchestra with Horst R. Laubenthal, Frida Leider
Conducted by Leo Blech

5. Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90 Isolde! Tristan!
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by Berlin State Opera Orchestra with Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior
Conducted by Albert Coates

6. Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90 O sink' hernieder
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior
Conducted by Albert Coates

7. Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90 Mild und leise
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

8. Parsifal, opera, WWV 111 Ich sah das Kind
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

9. Schmerzen ("Sonne, weinest jeden Abend..."), song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Wesendonk Lieder), WWV 91/4
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

10. Träume (Dreams) for violin & small orchestra in A flat major (from Wesendonck Lieder No. 5), WWV 91b
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Frida Leider
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider, Music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Albert Coates, Leo Blech, Sir John Barbirolli, Berliner Staatsopernorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Horst R. Laubenthal, Classical, Classical Artists, German/Austrian Classical Period Opera, German/Austrian Romantic Opera, Opera, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Vocal, Vocal Music
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider
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  • The best of Frida Leider.
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider

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ASIN: B0000023LQ
Release Date: 1994-10-14

Tracks:

  1. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Armide: Ah! si la liberte
  2. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Don Giovanni: Or sai chi l'onore
  3. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Fidelio: Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin?
  4. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Siegfried: Heil dir, Sonne!
  5. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Tristan und Isolde: Isolde! Tristan! - O sink' hernieder
  6. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Tristan und Isolde: Mild und leise
  7. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Parsifal: Ich sah das Kind
  8. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Schmerzen
  9. Lebendige Vergangenheit: Traume

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The best of Frida Leider........2003-02-27

Music lovers who wish to have the great Berlin soprano Frida Leider represented in their record collections are unlikely to find a better memento than this. It comprises most of the best recordings she made between 1927 and 1931. Unfortunately her "Brunnhilde's Immolation" is not included. Technically what is here is probably the most satisfactory from her recorded legacy, and the Preiser restorations are well up to their usual standard.

It must be said that Frida Leider's art and reputation can never be worthily demonstrated from her recordings. Her radiant high notes were never comfortably caught by the recording processes of her day. Timing exigencies, moreover, often dictated that many of the Wagner opera extracts she recorded were rushed through and in some cases cut. The duet with Melchior from "Tristan und Isolde" lacks the central section sung by Brangaene. It also derives from two recording sessions, one in London and the other five months later in Berlin. The second session proved necessary when the masters of the first two sides of the four made in London proved to be defective. The result, however, is as "heady" and sensuously overwhelming as can be imagined.
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Göta Ljungberg
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    ASIN: B00005NY3M
    Release Date: 2001-12-18

    Tracks:

    1. La Forza Del Destino: Madre, Pietosa Vergine
    2. La Forza Del Destino: Pace, Pace, Mio Dio
    3. Tristan Und Isolde: Die Wunde? Wo?
    4. Tristan Und Isolde: Mild Und Leise
    5. Die Walkure: Rette Mich, Kuhne - Frida Leider
    6. Parsifal: Ich Sah Das Kind An Seiner Mutter Brust
    7. Parsifal: Seit Ewigkeiten Harre Ich Deiner
    8. Salome: Ah! Du Wolltest Mich Nicht Deinen Mund Kussen Lassen
    9. Cavalleria Rusticana: Als Euer Sohn Einst Fortzog
    10. Tosca: Nur Der Schonheit Weiht Ich Mein Leben
    11. Tosca: Nur Deinetwegen Wollt' Ich Noch Nicht Sterben - Joseph Schmidt
    12. Madame Butterfly: Eines Tages Seh'n Wir
    13. Ave Maria
    14. Panis Angelicus
    15. Die Drei Musketiere: Du Schmeichelst In Mein Herz Dich Ein - Herbert Janssen
    16. Die Drei Musketiere: Mutterlein, Bleib Immer Bei Mir
    17. Tosca: Ora Stammi A Sentir
    Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider II
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      ASIN: B0000023O7
      Release Date: 1995-02-07

      Tracks:

      1. Tristan Und Isolde: Doch Nun Zu Tristan - Frida Leider/Elfriede Marherr-Wagner
      2. Die Walkure: Nun Zaume Dein Ross, Reisige Maid - Frida Leider/Friedrich Schorr
      3. Die Walkure: Rette Mich, Kuhne! - Frida Leider/Gota Ljungberg
      4. Die Walkure: War Es So Schmahlich, Was Ich Verbrach - Frida Leider/Friedrich Schorr
      5. Gotterdammerung: Schweigt Eures Jammers - Frida Leider/Elfriede Marherr-Wagner
      6. Gotterdammerung: Starke Scheite Schichtet Mir Dort
      7. Erlkonig
      8. Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen
      9. Widmung/Marienwurmchen
      10. Meine Rose
      11. Der Nussbaum
      12. Fruhlingstraum
      13. Wie Glanzt Der Helle Mond
      14. Mignon

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      Frida Leider was the greatest Wagner soprano of her day, roughly the 1920s and '30s. Her fame has been eclipsed by such successors as Flagstad and Nilsson, but recordings reveal her to have most of their strengths along with more vocal warmth. Listen to her Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung, and you hear a truly extraordinary performance--a huge, shining voice used with consummate intelligence and verbal pointing, pinpoint intonation, and wild abandon kept in firm control. Her Walkure duet with Friedrich Schorr, "Nun zaume dein Ross," is another highlight among many on this disc, all of whose Wagner items were recorded in her prime. The songs, too, from 1941-42, with Michael Raucheisen accompanying, are beautifully done. --Dan Davis

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