From Haydn to Eisler: the collected Philips recordings of Wolfgang Holzmair, a supreme art-song 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.

CD 1: BEETHOVEN · MOZART · HAYDN
Lieder
Imogen Cooper

CD 2: BEETHOVEN
Folk Songs
Trio Fontenay

CD 3: SCHUBERT
Die schöne Müllerin
Imogen Cooper

CD 4: SCHUBERT
Winterreise
Imogen Cooper

CD 5: SCHUBERT
Schwanengesang
Imogen Cooper

CD 6: SCHUMANN
Heine-Lieder; Dichterliebe
Liederkreis, Op. 24
Imogen Cooper

CD 7: ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN
Lieder
Imogen Cooper

CD 8: EICHENDORFF LIEDER
Mendelssohn; Franz; Schumann; Reimann; Wolf; Zemlinsky; Korngold; Pfitzner; Schoeck
Imogen Cooper

CD 9: KRENEK
Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen; Fiedellieder aus dem ‘Liederbuch dreier Freunde'
Gérard Wyss

CD 10: EISLER
Hollywood Songbook
Peter Stamm

CD 11: MÉLODIES FRANÇAISES
Fauré; Duparc; Ravel
Gérard Wyss

CD 12: CHANSONS FRANÇAISES
Berlioz; Chausson; Ibert; Ravel; Debussy; Duparc; Anthiome; Fauré
Maria Belooussova

CD 13: BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem
Herbert Blomstedt