Hugo Wolf - The Anniversary Edition

Hugo Wolf - The Anniversary Edition

EMI Classics celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the famed<br>Austrian composer Hugo Wolf with the release of this 8-CD<br>box set. This exclusive box set contains some of Hugo Wolf s<br>most notable works including his collections of Mörike-Lieder<br>and Eichendorff Leider.<br> Great singers have long been associated with the name of<br>Hugo Wolf; before World War II Walter Legge was the<br>inspiration behind the Hugo Wolf Society edition which<br>still remains a benchmark for the performance of Lieder. His<br>wife, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau<br>have long been icons in the performance of Lieder and those<br>of Wolf in particular. In this collection they are joined by<br>singers of the present generation Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär,<br>Ian Bostridge, Dawn Upshaw, Anne Sofie von Otter,<br>Helen Donath, Brigitte Fassbaender and Monika<br>Frimmer all who have been drawn to his great collection of<br>songs; accompanists too, notably. Gerald Moore, Geoffrey<br>Parsons, Helmut Deutsch and Antonio Pappano have<br>been instrumental in ensuring that the music of Hugo Wolf<br>continues to grace the halls where great Lieder are still<br>performed.