Posts tagged as "eberhard-wachter"

The Art of Irmgard Seefried – Vol. 10: Wolf & Egk Lieder

March 10, 2016

Like so many artists from north of the Alps, Wolf was lured by the Mediterranean south, an intoxicating world of light, sensual grace and intense, often violent emotions. His ‘Spanisches Liederbuch’ of 1889–90, 34 settings of Iberian folk poems translated by Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse, is the finest fruit of a long-lasting fascination with […]