Manuel Venegas / Orchesterlieder (Orchestral Songs)

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Hugo Wolf's lieder occupy a singular place in Romantic music—intensely dramatic, psychologically complex, and utterly uncompromising in their marriage of text and tone. This Capriccio recording gathers his orchestral songs alongside selections from the *Spanisches Liederbuch*, that extraordinary cycle where Wolf distilled the raw emotion of Spanish poetry into miniature masterpieces of accompaniment and vocal line. The centerpiece, the opera fragment *Manuel Venegas*, reveals Wolf's theatrical ambitions beyond the lied form, an incomplete but haunting work that showcases his gift for character and dramatic tension. What emerges across these works is Wolf's particular genius: the orchestra never merely decorates but becomes a full conversational partner with the voice, each instrumental strand carrying emotional weight. This is Romantic music at its most introspective and unadorned—no grandstanding, just the profound intimacy between word, melody, and orchestral color that made Wolf such a singular figure among his contemporaries.

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Genre	Classical
Style	Romantic
Media	Mint (M)
Sleeve	Mint (M)
Description	Sealed. Carefully packed and shipped with love from Vienna. Order more, save on shipping!
Label	Capriccio (2)
Year	2004
Country	Germany
Format	CD