| Sumario: | THE CULTURE The mezzo-soprano Janet Baker turned 90 in August, and the realisation set me on a freestyle cascade of thought through all sorts of things that I have been doing and pondering over the past few months. I asked him which other Lieder singers, singers of Schubert and Schumann and Brahms and Wolf, he truly admired. One of Goethe's greatest poems, Grenzen der Menschheit ("Limits of mankind"), was transformed by Hugo Wolf into one of the greatest musical invocations of the mysterious metaphysical, impossible to translate but nevertheless here we go: "What distinguishes gods from men?.
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