Grete Stueckgold, Paul Meyer SONGS BY HUGO WOLF / BIRCH 100-102 3x12" Album Set

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BIRCH THREE VINYL 12" 78 RPM ALBUM SET 100-102

GRETE STUECKGOLD, SONGS BY HUGO WOLF, PAUL MEYER AT THE PIANO, VOLUME II

SONGS (English translations, not in order):  The Meeting; Blessed are the Blind; Look Here, My Lads; The Gypsy; My Lover Sings and the Bright Moon is Gleaming; Lift Up Thy Fair Head; Insatiable Love; Mignon II - None but the Lonely Heart Can Know My Sadness; May Dreams Engulf My Love's Cottage; Lullaby; To an Aeolian Harp; Agnes; You Think to Catch Me With but a Thread. 

First about the Birch label records:  JOHN FAIRFAX BIRCH was a self-taught singer/composer who, starting in 1950, worked at the Joseph Patelson Music Store for 20 years.  Patelson produced records for him.  Patelson also published his songs.  He sang at recitals and on the radio.

Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated, expressive intensity, which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision, but diverging greatly in technique.

Grete Stueckgold (1895–1977) was a soprano opera singer.  I gather she was German or Austrian born, and spent the bulk of her career in America.  She performed several seasons with the Met.  Birch may have composed songs for her.

Of Paul Meyer, I could find nothing.  He had obvious talent.

Now about the album set:  The records have some scuffs and wear, but very few scratches, and some scattered tiny dimples.  (Condition varies side to side.)  Surface noise is extremely low -- Stueckgold is in the room with you.  I did here a couple of ticks on some sides, and there was some distortion on the first side of 102.

The covers of the set are rubbed and show storage wear with some soiling, but the binding is complete, and the sleeves are not loose, or torn.  The first is starting to split on the bottom -- the other two have no splits.

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