7 frühe Lieder = Seven early songs -- Sept Lieder de jeunesse: Nacht = Night = Nuit (text by Carl Hauptmann) (3:41) ; Schilflied = Song amid the reeds = Chanson du roseau (text by Nikolaus Lenau) (2:27) ; Die Nachtigall = The nightingale = Le rossignol (text by Theodor Storm) (2:20) ; Traumgekrönt = Crowned in dreams = Dans une auréole de rêve (text by Rainer Maria Rilke) (2:30) ; Im Zimmer = Indoors = Dans la chambre (text by Johannes Schlaf) (1:13) ; Liebesode = Ode to love = Ode amoureuse (text by Otto Erich Hartleben) (1:45) ; Sommertage = Summer days = Jours d'été (text by Paul Hohenberg) (1:48) -- Wozzeck : op. 7: Act III (6 inventions) (23:19).
Note
The 1st work originally for high voice and piano ; the 2nd work is an excerpt of an opera based on the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner.
In the 1st work: Heather Harper, soprano ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Pierre Boulez, conductor. In the 2nd work: Isabel Strauss, soprano ; Ingeborg Lasser, contralto ; Albert Weikenmeier, tenor ; Walter Berry, Karl Dönch, bass-baritones ; Chœur, Chœur d'enfants et Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris ; Pierre Boulez, conductor.
Event
First work recorded 1972 January EMI Studios, London, England.
Second work recorded 1966 January 31-1966 February 1-3/12 Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France.