Release Date: 01 February 2004
Label: Naxos - Ex Select Products / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313211821
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: LEHMANN
Description
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)The Daisy Chain Bird Songs Four Cautionary Tales and aMoralLiza Lehmann was the eldest daughter of the painter RudolfLehmann and his wife Amelia, daughter of the Edinburgh publisher and writerRobert Chambers. Rudolf Lehmann, who later settled with his family in England,was born in Hamburg and was himself the son of a German painter and his Italianwife. Christened Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica, Liza Lehmann was born inLondon, to ensure British nationality if the child had been a boy, although theLehmanns were living at the time in Rome. Rudolf Lehmann was distinguished inthe artists' colony there, his friends including Liszt, who always demandedbacon and eggs when he visited the Lehmanns. On settling in London the familycontinued to move in established social and artistic circles, with RudolfLehmann enjoying a very considerable reputation as a portrait painter.The four girls were educated at home by a series ofgovernesses and Liza Lehmann was encouraged in particular in her obviousmusical interests by her mother, herself a gifted if diffident amateur musicianbut her daughter's honest critic and mentor. Liza Lehmann was able to benefitas a singer from the help of Jenny Lind, whose classes she later attended. At thesame time she was able to reach a certain ability as a pianist throughsympathetic lessons with Alma Haas. She had lessons in singing with AlbertoRandegger and in composition with Raunkilde in Rome, followed by further studyof composition with Freudenberg in Wiesbaden and with Hamish MacCunn in London.For some time she wintered with her mother in Italy, and with her family dinedon one occasion with Verdi, whose portrait her father was drawing. Othernotable musical personalities with whom she came into contact early in her lifeincluded Clara Schumann, with whom she stayed for three weeks in Frankfurt,studying Schumann's songs. There she also met Brahms, by whose bluff and coarsemanners she was not impressed, particularly when he ate a whole tin of sardinesat breakfast and then drank the oil from the tin in one draught, as sherecounts in her colourful autobiography.By this time Liza Lehmann had embarked on a career as asinger, appearing in concerts and recitals, performing in oratorio and in variousLondon concert series. There was even an appearance at the Berlin Philharmonic,in response to an invitation from Joseph Joachim. Meanwhile the family's socialconnections and her father's work brought contact with leading painters,including Lord Leighton, Millais and Alma-Tadema, and, among those who sat forher father, Robert Browning. She enjoyed a successful and busy career as asinger from her debut in 1885 at the London Popular Concerts until her farewellrecital in 1894, before her marriage to the composer, artist and writer HerbertBedford, at the time earning a living in the City. Her sister Marianna marriedEdward Heron-Allen, a man of wide interests, but known to musicians for hisbook on violin-making. The third of t
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
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David Darling
Various
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Tagliaferri/Sciddurlo
Swr So Baden Freiburg
Seung-Yeun Huh
Oxford Girls Choir/Skinner
Monks Of Solesmes
