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557118 bk Lehmann 21/01/2004 01:38pm Page 16 DDD LIZA LEHMANN The English Song Series • 8 (1862-1918) 8.557118 1 Cherry Ripe * 2:37 * Dusk in the Valley ° 2:39 Liza from The Daisy Chain 12:47 ( The Lily of a Day * 2:30 2 Fairies ° 1:52 LEHMANN 3 Keepsake Mill ‡ 2:51 ) When I am dead, my dearest * 2:30 4 If no one ever marries me * 1:36 5 Stars † 3:21 Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral 17:00 6 The Swing * 1:14 ¡ Rebecca ° ‡ 2:32 The Daisy Chain 7 Mustard and Cress ‡ 1:45 ™ Jim ° 4:23 £ Matilda ° ‡ 3:37 Bird Songs * 9:16 ¢ Henry King ‡ 3:15 Bird Songs 8 The Woodpigeon 2:13 ∞ Charles Augustus Fortescue ° ‡ 3:06 9 The Starling 2:01 0 The Yellowhammer 1:24 § My true friend hath my hat † ‡ 1:43 Four Cautionary Tales ! The Wren 2:26 and a Moral @ The Owl 1:05 Two Nonsense Songs from Alice in Wonderland 5:22 # Magdalen at Michael’s Gate * 3:34 ¶ Mockturtle soup † 3:36 • Will you walk a little faster? * ° † ‡ 1:45 $ Evensong ° 2:35 Janice Watson, Soprano Janice Watson , Soprano * Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-Soprano % Endymion * 7:15 Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-Soprano ° Toby Spence, Tenor † Toby Spence, Tenor ^ Music when soft voices die ‡ 2:25 Neal Davies, Baritone ‡ Steuart Bedford, Piano Neal Davies, Baritone & To a little red spider ° 2:47 Steuart Bedford, Piano 8.557118 16 557118 bk Lehmann 21/01/2004 01:38pm Page 2 Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) ‘You can really have no notion how delightful it The Daisy Chain • Bird Songs • Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral Two Nonsense Songs from ‘Alice in will be, Wonderland’ When they take us up and throw us, with the Liza Lehmann was the eldest daughter of the painter By this time Liza Lehmann had embarked on a Poems by Lewis Carroll lobsters, out to sea!’ Rudolf Lehmann and his wife Amelia, daughter of the career as a singer, appearing in concerts and recitals, But the snail replied ‘Too far! Too far!’ and gave a Edinburgh publisher and writer Robert Chambers. performing in oratorio and in various London concert ¶ Mockturtle Soup look askance - Rudolf Lehmann, who later settled with his family in series. There was even an appearance at the Berlin Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would England, was born in Hamburg and was himself the son Philharmonic, in response to an invitation from Joseph Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, not join the dance. of a German painter and his Italian wife. Christened Joachim. Meanwhile the family’s social connections Waiting in a hot tureen! Would not, could not, would not, could not, would Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica, Liza Lehmann was and her father’s work brought contact with leading Who for such dainties would not stoop? not join the dance, born in London, to ensure British nationality if the child painters, including Lord Leighton, Millais and Alma- Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Would not, could not, would not, could not, would had been a boy, although the Lehmanns were living at Tadema, and, among those who sat for her father, Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! not join the dance. the time in Rome. Rudolf Lehmann was distinguished Robert Browning. She enjoyed a successful and busy Beau-ootiful Soo-oop! in the artists’ colony there, his friends including Liszt, career as a singer from her début in 1885 at the London Beau-ootiful Soo-oop! ‘What matters it how far you go?’ his scaly friend who always demanded bacon and eggs when he visited Popular Concerts until her farewell recital in 1894, Soo-oop of the e-e-evening, replied, the Lehmanns. On settling in London the family before her marriage to the composer, artist and writer Beautiful, beautiful Soup! ‘There is another shore, you know, upon the other continued to move in established social and artistic Herbert Bedford, at the time earning a living in the City. side. circles, with Rudolf Lehmann enjoying a very Her sister Marianna married Edward Heron-Allen, a Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, The further off from England the nearer is to considerable reputation as a portrait painter. man of wide interests, but known to musicians for his Game, or any other dish? France - The four girls were educated at home by a series of book on violin-making. The third of the girls, Amelia, Who would not give all else for two p- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and governesses and Liza Lehmann was encouraged in married the writer Barry Pain, author of the Pooteresque Ennyworth only of beautiful Soup? join the dance. particular in her obvious musical interests by her Eliza stories, and Alma married Edward Goetz, whose Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you mother, herself a gifted if diffident amateur musician mother had some contemporary reputation as a Beau-ootiful Soo-oop! join the dance? but her daughter’s honest critic and mentor. Liza composer. Beau-ootiful Soo-oop! Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t Lehmann was able to benefit as a singer from the help Marriage for Liza Lehmann and the end of her Soo-oop of the e-e-evening, you join the dance.’ of Jenny Lind, whose classes she later attended. At the career as a singer, brought to a more definite conclusion Beautiful, beautiful Soup! same time she was able to reach a certain ability as a by what seems to have been Bell’s palsy, which had a pianist through sympathetic lessons with Alma Haas. permanent effect on her vocal cords, allowed her to • Will you walk a little faster? She had lessons in singing with Alberto Randegger and return to composition, in which she had had an interest in composition with Raunkilde in Rome, followed by since early childhood. She won particular success with a ‘Will you walk a little faster?’ said a whiting to a further study of composition with Freudenberg in series of song-cycles, of which In a Persian Garden, snail, Wiesbaden and with Hamish MacCunn in London. For written in 1896 and based on texts from Fitzgerald’s ‘There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s some time she wintered with her mother in Italy, and Omar Khayyam, proved immensely popular. This treading on my tail. with her family dined on one occasion with Verdi, followed the earlier The Daisy Chain of 1893, a set of See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all whose portrait her father was drawing. Other notable children’s poems, and there followed In memoriam in advance! musical personalities with whom she came into contact 1899, based on Tennyson, and the Lewis Carroll and They are waiting on the shingle - will you come early in her life included Clara Schumann, with whom Hilaire Belloc nonsense and comic songs of 1908 and and join the dance? she stayed for three weeks in Frankfurt, studying 1909. Her vocal music led to extended concert tours in Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you Pu Schumann’s songs. There she also met Brahms, by which she served as accompanist, including two very join the dance? whose bluff and coarse manners she was not impressed, successful if exhausting tours of America. For the stage Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t particularly when he ate a whole tin of sardines at she wrote a musical farce Sergeant Brue which won you join the dance? breakfast and then drank the oil from the tin in one some success in 1904, and other stage works included a draught, as she recounts in her colourful autobiography. light opera The Vicar of Wakefield which brought a 8.557118 2 15 8.557118 557118 bk Lehmann 21/01/2004 01:38pm Page 14 It happened that a few weeks later In eating bread he made no crumbs, quarrel with the librettist Lawrence Housman, who Herbert Bedford through the Boer War. The settings are Her Aunt went off to the Theatre He was extremely fond of sums. objected to cuts in his extensive text and was actually admirably suited to their purpose, with a nice use of To see that entertaining play And as for finding mutton-fat evicted from the theatre at the first performance. Her illustrative detail in the accompaniment. ‘The Second Mrs Tanqueray.’ Unappetising, far from that! final attempt at opera was with Everyman, the morality Magdalen at St Michael’s Gate, a setting of a poem That night a fire did break out – He often, at his father’s board, play, staged in London in 1915. In her later years she by Henry Kingsley, the adventurous younger brother of You should have heard Matilda shout! Would beg them, of his own accord, served as professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Charles Kingsley, was among those songs that Liza You should have heard her scream and bawl, To give him, if they did not mind, Music and Drama. She was seriously affected by the Lehmann described as her publisher’s step-children, And throw the window up and call. The greasiest morsels they could find, - death in 1916 of the elder of her two sons, who selling less well than songs in a lighter vein, but much But every time she shouted, ‘Fire!’ His later years did not belie contracted pneumonia during military service.

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