Lehár reviews
Verklärte Nacht
Christine Rice (soprano), et al; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Hymns of Love (Dmytro Popov)
Dmytro Popov (tenor); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Mikhail Simonyan (Orchid Classics)
Fun Sun Kim conducts Lehár's Der Graf von Luxemburg
With a handful of exceptions, the operetta repertoire is eschewed by the bigger UK companies. This new recording of Lehár’s The Count of Luxembourg – which debuted in Vienna in 1909, but is heard here in the composer’s second version (1937) – derives from live performances at the Frankfurt Opera (2015-16).