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Title: Brahms & Wolf: Lieder
Artist: Florian Boesch
Label: Linn Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 691062075121
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-07-04
Number of Discs: 1

Baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau continue their successful collaboration on Linn with a recital pairing two geniuses who hated each other. Exploring the rivalry between Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf, the album showcases some of their most compelling songs which express deep emotion and philosophical themes. Brahms's Vier ernste Gesange, written in memory of Clara Schumann, contrasts melancholy with transcendence, whilst lieder like Sehnsucht and Die Trauernde evoke poignant pain and unresolved longing. Wolf, in his Goethe and Michelangelo songs, captures profound existential reflections, contrasting fame with love and weaving harmonies that echo the complexities of human emotion. The album concludes with Wolf's Prometheus, a tour-de-force of maximum power befitting Florian and Malcolm, two giants of the lieder scene.

Tracks:
1.3 Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121~O Tod, wie bitter bist du
1.11 Dein blaues Auge (No. 8 of Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59)
1.19 Wanderers Nachtlied (No. 5 of Sechs Gedichte von Scheffel, Mörike, Goethe und Kerner)