5: Songs of Love and Death In common with most song composers, Wolf was drawn heavily to poems whose subject is love, and in this last programme Jeremy Sams concentrates on some of these songs. Music includes:
Gen', Geliebter, Geh' Jetzt! (Spanish Songbook) Marta Fuchs (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
Phanomen (Goethe Lieder)
Peter Schreier (tenor), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
Erstes Liebeslied eines Madchens
(Mörike Lieder)
Felicity Lott (soprano),
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
The Italian Songbook (excerpts) Gerhard Hiisch , Dietrich Fischer -
Dieskau and Olaf Bar (baritones) and Alexander Kipnis (bass)
Michelangelo Songs Hans Hotter and Alexander Kipnis (basses)
Zur Ruh ' zur Ruh' (Gedichte) A performance of one of Wolf's earliest published songs, which was performed at the composer's funeral.