Music by Nicolai and Lortzing
The Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch : Overture, Undine (Lortzing)
Ludwig Hoffmann (bass) and Albert Peters (tenor) with Orchestra : Truth alone in Wine (Undine) (Lortzing)
Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone) with Chorus and Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, conducted by Johann Heidenreich : Undine's Return (Undine) (Lortzing)
The Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Weissmann : Overture, Czar and Canpenter (Lortzing)
Lotte Schoene (soprano) with Orchestra : Nun eilt herbei (Now hastens hither) (Aria of Mistress Ford) (The Merry Wives of Windsor) (Nicolai)
Alexander Kipnis (bass) with Orchestra : When that I was and a little tiny boy (The Merry Wives of Windsor) (Nicolai)
The New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood : Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
Gustav Albert Lortzing , who lived during the first half of last century, wrote a number of operas which were so good of their kind that two of them, Undine and Czar and Carpenter, are even now constantly performed on German stages. 'The music of these works has just those qualities which lend themselves to long life and even immortality.
Carl Otto Nicolai , Lortzing's contemporary, also wrote a number of operas, only one of which, The Merry Wives of Windsor, has survived the century in which it was written. The opera, under the name Falstaff, was first given in London in 1864, and has been heard only occasionally since.