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Goethe Lieder --- 2001

Recorded on 1 October 1999 and 3-4 February 2000 Piano: Steinway & Sons ℗ & © Hyperion Records Ltd., London, MMI Cover: "Eros and Ganymede" by Alfred Sacheverell Coke (fl.1869-1893) Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Bridgeman Art Library, London 112-page booklet with extensive notes by Graham Johnson, including song texts and English translations. Illustrations: Hugo Wolf in 1889 - frontispiece to composer's biography by Ernst Decsey (p.9); title page to early edition of Wolf's Gedichte von Goethe (p.10); silhouettes of Goethe in 1784 (p.15) and 1785 (p.40); Christiane Goethe née Vulpius in 1814 (p.24); Wolf's mistress Melanie Köchert (p.29); Die Bekehrte - silhouette by Rolf Winkler (p.37); statue of St Nepomuk on Charles Bridge, Prague (p.44); Reichardt's setting of "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt", folded into first edition of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Book IV (p.49); Melanie Köchert's three daughters, the original three kings in Epiphanias (p.79); Henry Moses, engraving from first English edition of Faust (p.89); collage of Goethe portraits during his Weimar years, 1773-1832 (p.91); Marianne von Willemer (p.93); artist photographs (pp.109-110).