Wolf - Orchestral Songs, Penthesilea | CPO 5553802

Wolf - Orchestral Songs, Penthesilea

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5553802

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th August 2022

Contents

Works

Wolf, Hugo

Goethe-Lieder
» no.1 Harfenspieler I
» no.2 Harfenspieler II
» no.3 Harfenspieler III
» no.19 Epiphanias
» no.29 Anakreons Grab
» no.49 Prometheus
Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook)
» no.33 Sterb' ich, so hullt in Blumen meine Glieder
Morike-Lieder
» no.10 Fussreise
» no.25 Schlafendes Jesuskind
» no.28 Gebet
» no.29 An den Schlaf
» no.39 Denk' es, o Seele!
Penthesilea

Artists

Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Jenaer Philharmonie

Conductor

Simon Gaudenz

Works

Wolf, Hugo

Goethe-Lieder
» no.1 Harfenspieler I
» no.2 Harfenspieler II
» no.3 Harfenspieler III
» no.19 Epiphanias
» no.29 Anakreons Grab
» no.49 Prometheus
Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook)
» no.33 Sterb' ich, so hullt in Blumen meine Glieder
Morike-Lieder
» no.10 Fussreise
» no.25 Schlafendes Jesuskind
» no.28 Gebet
» no.29 An den Schlaf
» no.39 Denk' es, o Seele!
Penthesilea

Artists

Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Jenaer Philharmonie

Conductor

Simon Gaudenz

About

"I am too cowardly to be a proper composer," Hugo Wolf confessed to a Viennese friend when he was barely 28 years old. And the result of his introspection was not so wrong: everything in his life, not only composing, proceeded in explosive spurts. He wandered through the deepest emotional valleys, suddenly flew up into the highest regions, suffered agonies when he couldn't think of anything to say, shouted his enthusiasm about a successful piece to the whole world and still managed to produce a respectable, albeit fragmentary oeuvre, from which the early poem Penthesilea after Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy of the same name stands out as a symphonic masterpiece. The Austrian baritone Benjamin Appl and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, led by its principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, have prefaced this highly dramatic monolith with twelve selected songs, most of which were orchestrated by their author himself: a dozen small, finely polished gems based on texts by Goethe, Mörike and Heyse, whose subtle arrangements leave no doubt that Hugo Wolf would certainly have had the makings of a "proper composer". Whether then, of course, the ingenious things would have been created that posterity owes to him - that is another matter.

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