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‘The most original and artistically consummate of all my works,’ Hugo Wolf said (with justice) of the Italienisches Liederbuch which he wrote in 1890-1 to the poetry of Paul Heyse.
Perhaps no pair of singers on record has interpreted this cycle of 46 songs with such natural accomplishment as Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. They made this recording near the end of the 1950s – at the height of Seefried’s career and near the start of Fischer-Dieskau’s, and its qualities of both freshness and delight in response to the text and vocal beauty have stood the test of time.
The singers performed the cycle together live at the 1958 Salzburg Festival to an ordering devised by the pianist for the occasion and Seefried’s regular accompanist, Erik Werba. In the DG studios a few months later, however, Fischer-Dieskau was joined by his own regular instrumental partner at the time, Jörg Demus. Meanwhile the subtly different responses of both pianists – Werba fuller-toned than Demus, whose pointed articulation owes something to his work on ‘period’ instruments – offer food for both thought and pleasure.
Without attempting to concoct a storyline, Werba’s ordering allows the poetry’s depictions of woman and man to contrast with and complement each other. A spirited opening group is followed by one which is predominantly lyrical, illustrating the need for love, the woman’s surrender and then wavering, a manly longing for death, a farewell, and appeal to sworn fidelity. The closing section juxtaposes a declaration of love, humour, mockery, caricature, resignation and finally boasting, with the soprano’s jubilant ‘confession’ that she has 21 lovers.
All four musicians fully bring to life the emotions of elation, joy, anger and irony in Wolf’s songs. Fischer-Dieskau’s second recording (with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gerald Moore for EMI) is justly famous in its own right, but the magic of this DG recording lies in the unaffected ease of his partnership with Seefried. (© Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.
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Italienisches Liederbuch (Hugo Wolf)
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Italienisches Liederbuch, nach Paul Heyse (Hugo Wolf)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Jörg Demus, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Irmgard Seefried, Soprano - Erik Werba, Piano - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Author - Hans Weber, Recording Producer - Hans Ritter, Recording Producer - Harald Baudis, Balance Engineer
℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
‘The most original and artistically consummate of all my works,’ Hugo Wolf said (with justice) of the Italienisches Liederbuch which he wrote in 1890-1 to the poetry of Paul Heyse.
Perhaps no pair of singers on record has interpreted this cycle of 46 songs with such natural accomplishment as Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. They made this recording near the end of the 1950s – at the height of Seefried’s career and near the start of Fischer-Dieskau’s, and its qualities of both freshness and delight in response to the text and vocal beauty have stood the test of time.
The singers performed the cycle together live at the 1958 Salzburg Festival to an ordering devised by the pianist for the occasion and Seefried’s regular accompanist, Erik Werba. In the DG studios a few months later, however, Fischer-Dieskau was joined by his own regular instrumental partner at the time, Jörg Demus. Meanwhile the subtly different responses of both pianists – Werba fuller-toned than Demus, whose pointed articulation owes something to his work on ‘period’ instruments – offer food for both thought and pleasure.
Without attempting to concoct a storyline, Werba’s ordering allows the poetry’s depictions of woman and man to contrast with and complement each other. A spirited opening group is followed by one which is predominantly lyrical, illustrating the need for love, the woman’s surrender and then wavering, a manly longing for death, a farewell, and appeal to sworn fidelity. The closing section juxtaposes a declaration of love, humour, mockery, caricature, resignation and finally boasting, with the soprano’s jubilant ‘confession’ that she has 21 lovers.
All four musicians fully bring to life the emotions of elation, joy, anger and irony in Wolf’s songs. Fischer-Dieskau’s second recording (with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gerald Moore for EMI) is justly famous in its own right, but the magic of this DG recording lies in the unaffected ease of his partnership with Seefried. (© Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Details of the original recording : Studio Lankwitz, Berlin, Germany, September 1958 (Seefried) and October 1958 (Fischer-Dieskau)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 46 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:30
- Main artists: Irmgard Seefried Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Composer: Hugo Wolf
- Label: Decca
- Area: Autriche
- Genre: Classical Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder Lieder (German)
- Period: Modern Style
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 1959 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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