Wolf: Eichendorff Lieder / Genz, Fink, Vignoles

This important recording featuring baritone Stephan Genz and mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink presents all of Hugo Wolf's settings of the poetry of Eichendorff. There are 26 songs in all, several of which seem never to have been recorded before (a fact which is hard to understand because they are very attractive). One of Wolf's favorite writers, Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff, was a German Romantic poet par excellence. His poems are full of the sounds of nature, the beauty of landscape, religious faith, and much musical imagery, with references to minstrels and other musicians. He was the poet of Schumann's Op.39 Liederkreis, though perhaps the most well-known Eichendorff setting is Im Abendrot from Strauss's Four Last Songs.

Cet enregistrement marquant propose tous les poèmes d'Eichendorff mis en musique par Hugo Wolf—au total, 26 mélodies dont plusieurs semblent ne jamais avoir été enregistrées avant (un fait surprenant au vu de leur charme). L'un des auteurs favoris de Wolf, Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1877–1857) est le poète romantique allemand par excellence. Ses poèmes regorgent de bruits de la nature, de beautés paysagères, de foi religieuse et d'images musicales faisant allusion aux ménestrels et autres musiciens. Il est le poète des Liederkreis op.39 de Schumann et, surtout, du fameux Im Abendrot des Quatre dernières mélodies de Strauss.

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