Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook)
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72378
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th October 2010
Contents
Artists
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)Julia Kleiter (soprano)
Hilko Dumno (piano)
Works
Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook)Artists
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)Julia Kleiter (soprano)
Hilko Dumno (piano)
About
Born in 1956 in Limburg, Germany, Christoph Prégardien is widely regarded as among the foremost lyric tenors of our time. Over the last few years he has produced three critically acclaimed lieder recordings for Challenge Classics, the first two of which have featured Schubert’s great song cycles “Die Schöne Müllerin” (CC72292), and “Schwanengesang” (CC72302). Most recently, in 2009 he released a beautifully compiled collection of songs entitled “Between Life and Death” (CC72324).
Julia Kleiter first came to prominence in 2004 when she made her debut as ‘Pamina‘ in a production “Die Zauberflöte“ at Opéra Bastille in Paris. Since then she has performed under Marc Minkowski in Paris and Madrid, and Claudio Abbado at the Edinburgh Festival.
The two parts of Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook were written in 1891 and 1896 during a period in which the composer’s physical and psychological health was rapidly deteriorating. It was to be his last important composition. Today, Wolf is considered to be one of the most important 19th Century lieder composers, but that recognition was slow in coming. As late as 1931, admirers felt compelled to begin a Hugo Wolf Society to make his lieder better known via gramophone recordings.
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