Wigmore Hall Live: Wolf Songs
Composed by Hugo Wolf
Wigmore Hall Live / WHLIVE0029
Recorded in February 2008 at Wigmore Hall, London
'There is a marvellous symbiosis at work between Holzmair and Cooper that is evident everywhere on this wonderful disc. You can hear it immediately in the first Lied, Auf einer Wanderung. Cooper plays, as always, with the utmost sensitivity: just listen, also, to the perfectly weighted chords of the accompaniment to the prayer-like Schlafendes Jesuskind. Holzmair projects the sense of wonder of the second stanza as eloquently as he does the magic simplicity of the scene-setting first. . . Zur Warnung – a musical depiction of a hangover – is beautifully characterised by both players, while Cooper's accompaniment to the final programmed song, Begegnung, is masterly. The encore, Selbstgeständnis, is exquisitely turned.
Throughout, Holzmair’s high register is magnificently focused, with little or no sense of strain, and he characterises each song well. Cooper if anything outshines her soloist in her seemingly infinite sensitivity. A very special disc.'
Colin Clarke, MusicWeb International
TRACKLISTING
Mörike Lieder:
1 No. 15, Auf einer Wanderung
2 No. 5, Der Tambour
3 No 39, Denk es, o Seele
4 No. 17, Der Gärtner
5 No. 21, Auf eine Christblume II
6 No. 44, Der Feuerreiter
7 No. 33, Peregrina I
8 No. 34, Peregrina II
9 No. 19, Um Mitternacht
10 No. 4, Jägerlied
11 No. 25, Schlafendes Jesuskind
12 No. 35, Frage und Antwort
13 No. 10, Fußreise
14 No. 24, In der Frühe
15 No. 13, Im Frühling
16 No. 43, Lied eines Verliebten
17 No. 36, Lebe wohl
18 No. 32, An die Geliebte
19 No. 9, Nimmersatte Liebe
20 No. 16, Elfenlied
21 No. 28, Gebet
22 No. 29, An den Schlaf
23 No. 6, Er ist's
24 No. 49, Zur Warnung
25 No. 51, Bei einer Trauung
26 No. 8, Begegnung
27 No. 52, Selbstgeständnis