As the title suggests, 'More Than Singing' concerns not only music and proper vocal techniques but also life and the transcendent power of art. Lotte Lehmann was among the most eminent lyric-dramatic sopranos of theearly twentieth century, especially noted for her passionate and sensitive renderings of lieder.

In this guide she distills a lifetime of work, research, and experience into concise, revealing lessons in the interpretation ofsongs by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Haydn, Beethoven, S...