Hugo Wolf - “Im Frühling“ (Mörike) Fischer-Dieskau, Moore

A song of great longing, “Im Frühling“ (In Spring) is yet another of the perceptive combinings of poetic expression and superb music that marked Hugo Wolf’s best work. At a duration of approximately four and a half minutes, it is longer than many of Wolf’s keenly observed vignettes; its length is dictated by the detail of Eduard Mörike’s poem and by the lingering scale of its utterance. It is, in the words of Wolf annotator Eric Sams, “a masterpiece.“ Mörike’s reputation as one of Germany’s greatest lyric p