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accompanied by, piano, liner notes Graham Johnson
booklet editor Tim Parry
composed by Hugo Wolf
engineer Antony Howell
engineer Julian Millard
executive-producer Edward Perry
executive-producer Simon Perry
graphic design [cover] Terry Shannon
musical assistance [language coach] Anja Bölkow
producer Mark Brown
soprano vocals Geraldine McGreevy
tracks 1, 6, 7, 10-14, 22 text by [goethe's poems translated by] Eric Sams
tracks 2-5, 8, 9, 15-21 text by [goethe's poems translated by] Richard Stokes
tracks 24 text by [goethe's poems translated by] Richard Wigmore
words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Phonographic Copyright (p) Hyperion Records Limited
Copyright (c) Hyperion Records Limited
Made By Universal M & L, UK
Recorded on 1 October 1999 and 3-4 February 2000
Piano: Steinway & Sons

℗ & © Hyperion Records Ltd., London, MMI

Cover: Eros and Ganymede by Alfred Sacheverell Coke (fl.1869-1893)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Bridgeman Art Library, London

112-page booklet with extensive notes by Graham Johnson, including song texts and English translations.
Illustrations: Hugo Wolf in 1889 - frontispiece to composer's biography by Ernst Decsey (p.9); title page to early edition of Wolf's Gedichte von Goethe (p.10); silhouettes of Goethe in 1784 (p.15) and 1785 (p.40); Christiane Goethe née Vulpius in 1814 (p.24); Wolf's mistress Melanie Köchert (p.29); Die Bekehrte - silhouette by Rolf Winkler (p.37); statue of St Nepomuk on Charles Bridge, Prague (p.44); Reichardt's setting of Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, folded into first edition of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Book IV (p.49); Melanie Köchert's three daughters, the original three kings in Epiphanias (p.79); Henry Moses, engraving from first English edition of Faust (p.89); collage of Goethe portraits during his Weimar years, 1773-1832 (p.91); Marianne von Willemer (p.93); artist photographs (pp.109-110).
Barcode: 034571171302
Label Code: LC 7533
Matrix / Runout: CDA67130 01 6
Matrix / Runout: MADE IN THE UK BY UNIVERSAL M&L (Mould)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L136
Mould SID Code: IFPI 04E8
SPARS Code: DDD