Stephan Genz, Roger Vignoles - Wolf: Eichendorff-Lieder (1998)

Tracklist

01. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 11, Lieber alles
02. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 10, Der Glücksritter
03. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 12, Heimweh
04. In der Fremde I
05. In der Fremde II
06. In der Fremde III
07. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 9, Der Schreckenberger
08. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 14, Der verzweifelte Liebhaber
09. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 13, Der Scholar
10. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 4, Das Ständchen
11. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 8, Nachtzauber
12. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 7, Die Zigeunerin
13. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 2, Der Musikant
14. Nachruf
15. Rückkehr
16. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 20, Waldmädchen
17. Die Kleine
18. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 3, Verschwiegene Liebe
19. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 5, Der Soldat I
20. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 6, Der Soldat II
21. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 1, Der Freund
22. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 18, Erwartung
23. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 15, Unfall
24. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 19, Die Nacht
25. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 16, Liebesglück
26. Eichendorff-Lieder: No. 17, Seemanns Abschied

This important recording presents all of Hugo Wolf's settings of the poetry of Eichendorff—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 favourite writers, Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857) was the German Romantic poet par excellence and 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.

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