(with violin playing the voice part) beneath Mathilde's window on the occasion of her birthday, 23 December 1857. Some male singers have sung some of the songs: Lauritz Melchior recorded "" and "Träume" for HMV in 1923, "" has been recorded by tenors Franco Corelli (in French), Plácido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Andrea Bocelli, and the bass Paata Burchuladze. A few have attempted the whole cycle in performance, including René Kollo. Tenor Stuart Skelton recorded the entire cycle in 2018, as did Christoph Prégardien in 2019. The orchestration of all five songs was completed for large orchestra by Felix Mottl, the Wagner conductor, on 3 August 1893. In 1972 the Italian composer Vieri Tosatti entirely re-orchestrated the songs. In 1976 the German composer Hans Werner Henze produced a chamber version for the songs. Each of the players has a separate part, with some very unusual wind registration. French composer Christophe Looten wrote a transcription for voice and string quartet (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, March 2015). In 2013 (the bicentennial of Wagner's birth) the French composer Alain Bonardi released a new version for voice, piano, clarinet and cello, including instrumental interludes with oriental resonant percussions. In the same year, the Chinese-British composer Jeffrey Ching premiered his Wesendonck Sonata, for voice, viola (or cello), and piano. Ching transposed Wagner's original songs so as to form a closed palindromic tonal sequence in the manner of a five-movement sonata, and also added an elaborate obbligato part for viola (or cello), which comments on the poems and adds harmonic and contrapuntal detail to Wagner's accompaniment. A version of the lieder with the original piano accompaniment arranged for string orchestra by David Angell was premiered by the Bourbaki Ensemble in Sydney, Australia in January 2022. Composer Paolo Fradiani arranged a version for chamber ensemble of 11 players. Clytus Gottwald arranged "Im Treibhaus" and "Träume" for 16-voice choir a cappella in 2004 as Zwei Studien zu "Tristan und Isolde". References Notes Sources Millington, Barry (ed.) (2001). "The Wagner Compendium". London: Thames and Hudson. Newman, Ernest (1976a). "The Life of Richard Wagner. Volume II: 1848–1860". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Newman, Ernest (1976b). "The Life of Richard Wagner. Volume III: 1859–1866". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vazsonyi, Nicholas (ed.) (2013). The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopaedia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. External links Die Wesendonck-Lieder / Fünf Gedichte für Frauenstimme und Klavier / Komponist: Richard Wagner (WWV 91) wesendonck.websiteportal.de Audio of Jeffrey Ching's Wesendonck