Hugo wolfs complete italienisches liederbuch at the. Chandos records is one of the worlds premier classical music record companies, best known for its ground breaking search for neglected musical gems. Italian songbook is a collection of 46 lieder songs for voice and piano by hugo wolf 18601903. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. This sixth disc features settings of lenau and the sacred texts from the. The spanisches liederbuch of emanuel geibel and paul heyse and its reflection in the songs of hugo wolf, sleeman and davies have researched the history of the poems of geibel and heyses spanisches liederbuch and analyzed the text with a parallel discussion of wolfs setting. This website began in 1995 as a personal project by emily ezust, who has been working on it fulltime without a salary since 2008. Pop, rock, blues,country, heavy metal, death metal, alternative rock and jazz. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner. Worldcat identifies the peters edition, probably published ca. These, along with the many other songs written between 1888 and 1897. Wolf considered his 46 settings of paul heyses german translations of rispetti short italian poems the most original and artistically consummate of all my works. Spanish songbook is a collection of 44 lieder songs for voice and piano by hugo wolf 18601903. Graham johnson takes time off from schumann and french song to give us this glowing disc of all of hugo wolf goethe settings suitable for female voice, some of which have rarely been recorded.
E h7 e go tell it on the mountains, over the hills and everywhere e h7 e go tell it on the mountains, that jesus christ is born e a e 1. His mother, katharina, with her italian family background, had a fiery. Juliane banses voice rang out in a prerecorded message, reminding the audience that as far as she knew, cell phones and classical music did not generally mix. Spanisches liederbuch ii by hugo wolf 18601903 sheet. Wolfs way of selecting poems from heyses collection seems inconsistent, and his song ordering in the both volumes does not show evident rules. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late romantic music, somewhat related to that of the second viennese school in concision but utterly unrelated in technique. Hugo wolf the anniversary edition emi classics 50999 6. Apparently half of this collection dates from 1891, the ca. Hugo wolfs two volumes of the italienisches liederbuch 189091, 1896 were set to the fortysix poems from paul heyses wellselected works.
Kravitt notes, volume 57, number 1, september 2000, pp. Sleeman and gareth alban davies say that of the 99 secular poems, wolf tended to choose the. And chords for hundreds and hun each song on the billboard hot 100 charts, the year in which the re. The remarkable soprano geraldine mcgreevy sings them for us in her first solo cd she has taken part in some of the schumann recordings with graham.
Sung texts with translations can be found on the bonus cdrom in pdf form, which can be accessed from any computer equipped with cdrom drive and adobe acrobat 6. Wolf has put these poems into delightful music, small jewels. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Italienisches liederbuch by dietrich fischerdieskau, gerald moore, elisabeth schwarzkopf, hugo wolf from amazons classical music store. His father, philipp wolf, was a selftaught musician. While there are some less distinguished songs in wolfs spanisches liederbuch, it also contains several of his finest, and as a whole the set is utterly compelling, exhibiting a wide range of color and feeling though mostly concerned with devotion and passion. They were composed between october 1889 and april 1890, and published in 1891. The sixth disc in the first complete recording of the songs of hugo wolf 18601903, recorded live at the oxford lieder festival. Hugo wolf 1860 1903 vocal texts and translations at.
Hugo wolf began working on the spanisches liederbuch on october 28, 1889, with his setting of the anonymous poem, wer sein holdes lieb verloren. The song microscope an instrument yet to be invented by science but long at the disposal of wolf enthusiasts shows that the amalgam of music and poetry which is the italienisches liederbuch is a volatile substance teeming with frantic activity, unguessedat by the many, invisible and inaudible to the uninformed ear and eye, and yet hugely. Motet notes hugo wolf einkehr from sechs geistliche lieder. Hugo wolf bio, albums, pictures naxos classical music.
His lieder display a concentrated expressive intensity unique to wolf. See terms and conditions for important information about. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. Italienisches liederbuch isokoski, skovhus by hugo wolf. Spanish songbook song cycle by austrian composer hugo wolf, based on both sacred and secular verses. Original music tab from original books, instant download, no sign up, no shipping handling, download print. The words are translations into german by emanuel geibel 181584 and paul heyse 18301914 of spanish and portuguese poems and folk songs, published in a collection of 1852. The entire set was composed in perchtoldsdorf and published in mainz in 1891. Songbook pdf megaupload the largest collection of guitar tablature in pdf. Wolfs lieder are often referred to as symphonic lieder, with an important part of the piano, beside the voice. The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. Spanisches liederbuch, nach heyse details allmusic. The first 22 songs book 1 were composed between september 1890 and december 1891, and published in 1892. Spanisches liederbuch 1890 1891 geistliche lieder 1 10 1.
For the words to his song cycle, wolf selected from a collection of spanish poems that had been translated into. Hugo wolf s spanisches liederbuch, a songbook based on a collection of poems both sacred and secular, is widely described as a song cycle, but margaret g. Songpiece of music performed by a single voice, with or without instrumental accompaniment. Lott, schreier and johnson, on this recording, give us an artistically consummate performance. Kapitel 1 liedertexte go tell it on the mountains spiritual refrain. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. Challenge records international italienisches liederbuch. Songbook winger pdf large collection of all type of guitar tab, songbook. Master of music music theory, december 2010, 71 pp. Einkehr reflects the composers descent into despair. He is particularly known for his art song, or lieder.
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