Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land: lieder by Goethe, Eichendorff, Mörike

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Karthauser…is sensitive to Wolf’s sour-sweet, ever-shifting harmonies, and the raw nerves of the melodic line as it responds to the verse. And she is warmly supported by every nuance of accompaniment... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902245
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 60 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2016

Editor's Choice

Excerpt, Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

No. 5, Mignon I

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No. 6, Mignon III

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Wolf, H: Goethe Lieder: No. 7, Mignon III

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

Wolf, H: 6 Lieder für eine Frauenstimme: No. 6, Mausefallensprüchlein

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

Wolf, H: Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: No. 7, Das verlassene Mägdelein

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

Wolf, H: Mörike-Lieder, Heft IV: No. 45, Nixe Binsefuß

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

Excerpt, Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder

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No. 24, Blumengruß

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No. 28, Frühling über's Jahr

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No. 29, Anakreons Grab

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Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder: No. 9, Mignon: Kennst du das Land

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Wolf, H: Mörike Lieder, Heft II, Heft II

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

No. 1, Im Frühling

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Wolf, H: Mörike Lieder, Heft II, Heft IV

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

No. 51, Bei einer Trauung

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Wolf, H: Mörike Lieder, Heft II, Heft II

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No. 14, Agnes

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No. 16, Elfenlied

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Excerpt, Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

No. 26, Die spröde

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No, 27, Die Bekehrte

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Wolf, H: Eichendorff-lieder: No. 3. Verschwiegene Liebe

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Wolf, H: Mörike-Lieder, Heft I

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No. 2, Der Knabe und das Immlein

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No. 3, Ein Stündlein wohl vor Tag

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No. 6, Er ist's

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No. 11, An eine Äolsharfe

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Wolf, H: Mörike Lieder, Heft IV: No. 42, Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

Wolf, H: Wiegenlied im Sommer (from Sechs Lieder für eine Frauenstimme)

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Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti

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The brief period between 1888 and 1897, between the great cycles devoted to single poets and the songs on sonnets of Michelangelo, saw Wolf at the zenith of his creativity. That period saw the genesis of the songs later published in anthologies after Mörike, Eichendorff and Goethe. Although even the early songs before 1888 reveal no arbitrariness in the choice of texts, it is this concentration on individual literary figures that characterises the highpoint of Wolf’s output. Their names resound in the ears of all who love German Romantic literature and are familiar with its transposition into the world of the lied. While Schubert often mined an unexpected vein of poetry in lesser authors, his distant successor Hugo Wolf drank at the source of these giants. Wolf was undoubtedly a virtuoso in the art of making audible the huge dimension of what remains unsaid, though implied. Perhaps he had only one true peer: his former Viennese fellow student Gustav Mahler.

Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser studied with Noelle Barker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is now in great demand, especially as a Mozart singer. She sang her first Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) under René Jacobs and her first Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) under William Christie. Since winning the Audience Prize at the Wigmore Hall Song Contest she has developed an acclaimed career as a recitalist, enjoying a particularly close artistic partnership with the distinguished American pianist Eugene Asti.

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September 2016

Karthauser…is sensitive to Wolf’s sour-sweet, ever-shifting harmonies, and the raw nerves of the melodic line as it responds to the verse. And she is warmly supported by every nuance of accompaniment delineated in Eugene Asti’s piano playing … This anthology of uneasy springs, lovers’ twilights, innocence threatened and experience mourned would make a good introduction for a newcomer to Hugo Wolf.

CD Review 14th May 2016

It’s so lovely to hear the piano sound given the prominence that it deserves, and there’s a lovely bloom on the recording that gives it an almost live quality which I really appreciated. It’s a great selection of songs … it just works really well.

August 2016

Karthäuser here proves herself a natural in Lieder...With her fresh, limpid soprano and sharp feeling for character and nuance, she gives unfailing delight in the these settings...[Asti] is a model partner, commentator and animator.

September 2016

[Karthäuser] has developed into a tremendously accomplished artist. Wolf’s songs are not the easiest to get under the skin of, but her readings are utterly convincing … I could name every track as a model of insightful Wolf singing … It should be heard by every Lieder enthusiast.

29th May 2016

This selection of settings...is well chosen and cannily arranged. It includes the wryly witty, the tragic and the crudely euphemistic, and Karthäuser’s voice is bright-toned yet weighty enough to carry darker emotions.

Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land

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