Editing Hugo Wolf (section)

===Hugo Wolf Society edition===
In September 1931 the Hugo Wolf Society was formed under the aegis of the United Kingdom's [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] supervised by Walter Legge<ref>[[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]], ''On and Off the Record'' (Faber and Faber 1982), p. 215.</ref> for the recording of a substantial proportion of the song repertoire. These were to be issued to subscribers in limited editions.<ref name="Hugo Wolf Society Publications 1936">Hugo Wolf Society Publications (HMV, Hayes 1931-1936).</ref> The artists participating were restricted to those under contract to this company. Each volume consisted of six His Master's Voice red-label discs (unobtainable separately) and retailed new at $15.00 Am. The Wolf Society recordings were re-released in 1981.<ref>E. Schwarzkopf, ''On and Off the Record'', p. 215.</ref> <br />
* Volume I, entirely performed by [[Elena Gerhardt]] accompanied by [[Coenraad V. Bos]], presented a selection mainly from the Spanish and Italian songbooks and the Mörike songs. For many years this scarce set<ref>It became rare because HMV claimed that to reissue it would betray the original terms of the limited edition. This was deplored, on behalf of the singer, by [[Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music critic)|Desmond Shawe-Taylor]] ('Elena Gerhardt and the Gramophone', in E. Gerhardt, ''Recital'' (London, Methuen 1953), 168) and by Gerald Moore (''Am I Too Loud?'' (Harmondsworth 1966), 93).</ref> was regarded as a collector's prize, and forms a distinct corpus within her recorded art. Later volumes always included more than one singer. 
* Volume II: 16 of the 51 Goethe songs, all (apart from McCormack's ''Ganymed'') accompanied by Coenraad V. Bos, but with Friedrich Schorr's ''Prometheus'' with the orchestral accompaniment. 
* Volume III: A selection of 17 items, including three Michelangelo songs, three Mörike songs, four from the ''Spanisches Liederbuch'' and six from the ''Italienisches Liederbuch''. All accompanied by Coenraad V. Bos. 
* Volume IV: 30 items from ''Italienisches Liederbuch''. Accompaniments by Coenraad V. Bos, [[Michael Raucheisen]] and [[Hanns Udo Müller]]. 
* Volume V: A selection of 20 songs (mainly Mörike and ''Spanisches Liederbuch''). 
* Volume VI: Settings of Mörike, Robert Reinick, Goethe, Heyse and Geibel, Just and Kerner. 

Artists included [[Alexander Kipnis]] (III, IV, V); [[Herbert Janssen]] (II, V, VI); [[Gerhard Hüsch]] (II, III, IV, V); [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]] (accompanied by [[Edwin Schneider]]) (II); [[Alexandre Trianti]] (II, III); [[Ria Ginster]] (IV, V); [[Friedrich Schorr]] (II); [[Elisabeth Rethberg]] (IV, V); [[Tiana Lemnitz]] (VI); [[Helge Roswaenge]] (VI); [[Marta Fuchs]] (VI) and [[Karl Erb]] (VI).<ref>See E. Sackville-West and D. Shawe-Taylor, ''The Record Year 2'' (Collins, London 1953), 683-693. Also a listing in the His Master's Voice ''Recorded Music'' Catalogue (Hayes, Middlesex: 1943-44), p. 290.</ref> Each volume was accompanied by a booklet containing a short essay by [[Ernest Newman]] (I: ''Words and Music in Hugo Wolf'', II: ''Wolf's Goethe Songs'', III: ''A Note of Wolf as Craftsman'', IV: ''The Italienisches Liederbuch'') together with German texts, English translations (by Winifred Radford) and notes on each song (by Newman).<ref name="Hugo Wolf Society Publications 1936"/>