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Track(s) taken from CDJ33007

Wer kauft Liebesgötter?, D261

First line:
Von allen schönen Waren
composer
first published 1850
author of text

Elly Ameling (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Recording details: August 1989
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: December 1990
Total duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
 

Reviews

‘An extraordinarily rewarding sequence of 24 songs’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘An exciting voyage of discovery’ (The Guardian)

‘Delightful interpretive insight and authentic enunciation of the language make for a memorable recording’ (CDReview)
This poem was written in 1795 as part of an intended sequel for Die Zauberflöte, as a duet for Papageno and Papagena. The poet revered Mozart whom he had once seen when the infant prodigy (seven years younger than himself) had visited Frankfurt. Of course Goethe had no great success in finding a composer adequate to the task of worthily setting such a libretto, but on this showing he might have done worse than Schubert who needed no extra encouragement to pay homage to his idol Mozart, or to make a musical bow in the direction of the greatest of all Singspiele. As with Die Spinnerin the tessitura is cruelly high in the original key of C major; could it be that these songs were conceived for Therese Grob whose vocal accomplishments included a D in alt? There is a suggestive quality in the words which might have appealed to her less as a good church-going girl. This song would be more performed if there was more time to breathe, and the words, in this pert tempo, were not such a mouthful.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 1989

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