Hugo Wolf Im Frühling ( Mörike) Fischer Dieskau, Moore
A song of great longing, Im Frühling (In Spring) is yet another of the perceptive combinings of poetic expression and superb music that marked Hugo Wolf s best work. At a duration of approximately four and a half minutes, it is longer than many of Wolf s keenly observed vignettes; its length is dictated by the detail of Eduard Mörike s poem and by the lingering scale of its utterance. It is, in the words of Wolf annotator Eric Sams, a Mörike s reputation as one of Germany s greatest lyric p
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