Description
Item Description:Opera excerpts, and songs with piano accompaniment or accompaniment arranged for orchestra.
Compilation of material previously released on German Grammophon, 1921-1926 (disc 1); and on Electrola and HMV (disc 2, 1927-1943)
Compact discs.
Program notes by Peter Dempsey in English (6 pages : portrait) in container.
Physical Description:2 audio discs (151 min., 7 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:02:31:07
Participant or Performer:Frida Leider, soprano ; with Elfriede Marherr-Wagner, soprano (disc 2, tracks 9, 14) ; Lauritz Melchior, tenor (disc 2, tracks 10-12) ; Michael Raucheisen, piano (disc 2, tracks 4-8) ; Berlin State Opera Orchestra (disc 2, tracks 9-10, 14-17) ; London Symphony Orchestra (disc 2, tracks 11-13) ; unidentified orchestra(s) (remainder) ; John Barbirolli (disc 2, tracks 1-3, 13), Leo Blech (disc 2, tracks 9, 14-17), Albert Coates (disc 2, tracks 10-12), unidentified (remainder), conductors.
Language:Sung in chiefly in German, with one selection in French and one in Italian.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:Recorded 1921-1943.