Wolfgang Holzmair - The Philips Recitals

From Haydn to Eisler: the collected Philips recordings of WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR, a supreme artsong interpreter, including many long-deleted albums. Wolfgang Holzmair has long been recognised as one of today’s most accomplished and intelligent Lieder singers. He brings a refinement and subtlety to his performances worthy of the great German Lieder baritones, but it is the silky elegance of his voice that has always seduced listeners and critics: the golden, tenorial top as well as his rich, soulful lower register. In celebration of his 70th birthday, this set brings together his complete Philips recitals for the first time, as well as his 1995 recording for Koch of the Hollywood Songbook by Hanns Eisler. The box is ordered by musical chronology, beginning with the folksong-like simplicity of Haydn’s solo-vocal idiom, a quartet of exquisite Mozart Lieder and the Beethoven cycle – An die ferne Geliebte – that became the keystone for the Romantic artsong tradition.

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Format: CD
Artist: Wolfgang Holzmair
Release Date: 11 March 2022
Genre: Classical Music
Label: DECCA AUSTRALIA
Distributor: Universal Music