JOHN McKENNA (tenor)
THE BROSA STRING QUARTET: Antonio Brosa (violin) ; Norman Chappie (violin); Leonard Rubens (viola); Livio Mannucci (violoncello)
(First performance in England)
After remaining in manuscript for over fifty years, some early songs of Hugo Wolf , dating from the period 1878-1883, are about to be published. They have been edited by Professor Dr. Helmut Schultz of the Musikwissenschaft Verlag in Vienna, and copies have been brought to London by Dr. Waldemar Rosen. The six songs to be sung now have thus never been heard before in England. The manuscripts had been left as part of a legacy to a family with whom Wolf had been closely connected, but the performing rights belonged to the Richard Wagner Society, and it is probably owing to legal difficulties that their publication has been withheld up to now.