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Gabriel Fauré: Mélodies is a 54-minute studio album of eighteen of Fauré's art songs performed by the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade with piano accompaniment by Jean-Philippe Collard. [1] It was released in 1983.
Frederica von Stade Live! is a 46-minute live album of arias, art songs and folk songs from America, France, Ireland and Italy, performed by von Stade with piano accompaniment by Martin Katz. It was released in 1982. [1]
Frederica von Stade—always Flicka (her childhood nickname) to her family, friends and fans—was born in Somerville, New Jersey on 1 June 1945, the daughter of Sara Clucas von Stade and Charles Steele von Stade, a 1941 US Polo Champion, who had been killed by a landmine while serving with the US Army in Germany during World War II.
Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration was an 89-minute televised concert presented in Prague's Smetana Hall on 16 December 1993, in which thirteen pieces of music by Antonin Dvořák were performed by the pianist Rudolf Firkušný, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the violinist Itzhak Perlman, the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, the Prague Philharmonic Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the ...
For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano: Composed for soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. Vocal: 2011: The Breaking Waves: Text by Sister Helen Prejean: For mezzo-soprano and piano: Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and pianist David Zobel. Vocal: 2012: Farewell, Auschwitz: Texts adapted ...
Song Recital is a 54-minute studio album of Lieder, mélodies and English and American songs performed by Frederica von Stade with piano accompaniment by Martin Katz. It was released in 1978. It was released in 1978.
Live recording of the 2011 Houston Grand Opera production of the title work by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally. Performed by Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Philip Cutlip (baritone), and the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Patrick Summers, conductor). Virgin Classics. Compact disc.
Dominick Argento, photographed by King Elder in 2016. Joseph Stevenson reviewed the album in Classics Today.In 1983, he wrote, the English conductor Neville Marriner had urged the Minnesota Orchestra to commission Dominick Argento to compose a song cycle for the operatic mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.