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Dame Janet Baker (b.1933) needs no introduction. During her illustrious career, which spanned from the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and concert performer, widely admired throughout the world for her dramatic intensity and musical intelligence, notably in the works of Gustav Mahler. John Shirley-Quirk (b.1931) made his operatic debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1961, and was prominent in performing and recording the vocal works of Benjamin Britten (as was Janet Baker). He appeared regularly with all the major orchestras and opera companies throughout the world. Steuart Bedford (b.1939) was also associated with the music of Britten, and conducted the world premiere of Death in Venice in 1973. Between 1974 and 1998, he was one of the Artistic Directors of the Aldeburgh Festival.
These 46 songs show Wolf at his most captivatingly individual. Many of them are brief fragments of fantasy, which call for the most intense artistry if their meaning is to be fully communicated. Dame Janet Baker expresses the wide range of emotions inspired by love with searching perception.
John Shirley-Quirk has a true understanding of the lyrical impulse that fills the wonderful love songs given to the male interpreter.
Steuart Bedford has devised his own sequence for the songs and is an equal partner in portraying the conflicting emotions contained in Wolf's work.
This BBC recording is in excellent stereo capturing the atmosphere from the Aldeburgh Festival in Snape Maltings in June 1977.
The recording has never been issued before.
This is Janet Baker’s only recording of the Italienisches Liederbuch in its entirety.
Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
No. 1. Auch kleine Dinge
No. 23. Was fur ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden?
No. 39. Gesegnet sei das Grun
No. 5. Selig ihr Blinden
No. 25. Mein Liebster hat zu Tische
No. 18. Heb auf dein blondes Haupt
No. 15. Mein liebster ist so klein
No. 40. O war' dein Haus
No. 32. Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz
No. 8. Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen
No. 27. Schon streckt' ich aus im Bett
No. 20. Mein Liebster singt am Haus
No. 42. Nicht langer kann ich singen
No. 43. Schweig einmal still
No. 44. O wusstest du, wie viel ich deinetwegen
No. 6. Wer rief dich denn
No. 22. Ein Standchen Euch zu bringen
No. 12. Nein, junger Herr
No. 21. Man sagt mir, deine Mutter
No. 37. Wie viele Zeit verlor ich
No. 10. Du denkst mit einem Fadchen
No. 17. Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen
No. 31. Wie soll ich frohlich sein
No. 30. Lass sie nur gehn
No. 45. Verschling' der Abgrund
No. 2. Mir ward gesagt
No. 7. Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag' erhoben
No. 16. Ihr jungen Leute
No. 3. Ihr seid die Allerschonste
No. 38. Wenn du mich mit den Augen
No. 9. Dass doch gemalt
No. 29. Wohl kenn ich Euren Stand
No. 4. Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt
No. 24. Ich esse nun mein Brot
No. 35. Benedeit die sel'ge Mutter
No. 34. Und steht Ihr fruh am Morgen auf
No. 41. Heut Nacht erhob ich mich
No. 33. Sterb' ich, so hullt in Blumen
No. 36. Wenn du, mein Liebster
No. 19. Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen
No. 11. Wie lange schon
No. 26. Ich liess mir sagen
No. 13. Hoffartig seid Ihr, schones Kind
No. 28. Du sagst mir, dass ich keine Furstin
No. 14. Geselle, woll'n wir uns in Kutten hullen
No. 46. Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten
December 2012
“no typical Italianisches Liederbuch, this. Neither Janet Baker nor John Shirley-Quirk was particularly known for this repertoire - though they've both so convincing that one can't guess why...I was continually excited by new insights at every turn...particularly when Baker sets aside her patrician poise and is seized by the music's inner volatility...Why wasn't this recording released decades ago?”
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No. 1. Auch kleine Dinge
