Product Description

V1724. FRIDA LEIDER, Vol. III, incl. Songs by Wagner; Arias & Duets (w.Schorr, Laubenthal & Ljungberg) from
Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Carlos, Il Trovatore, Tannhäuser, Die Walküre (incl. variant ‘take’) & Siegfried.
(Germany) Truesound Transfers 3010, recorded 1922-27. Transfers by Christian Zwarg.
CRITIC REVIEWS:
“I suspect one would have to go back to Lilli Lehmann to find another soprano who has delivered the music with such perfection of phrasing and shading, so sure a sense of design, such subtlety and such nobility of expression, and so firm a control of her vocal resources.”
- Pitts Sanborn, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23 Feb., 1934
"The intensity of [Leider's] singing is unmistakeable at the great moments….a singer with presence, and one is aware of it, majestic and human throughout. Leider was an adored singer….”
- J. B. Steane, THE GRAND TRADITION, pp.240-41