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V1725. FRIDA LEIDER, Vol. IV, incl. Arias & Duets (w.Melchior & Marherr) from Armide, Don Giovanni, Fidelio, Parsifal, Tristan & Götterdämmerung. (Germany) Truesound Transfers 3011, recorded 1928-31. 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