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As a composer, Richard Wagner isn't known for his Lieder as much as he's known for his operas. He wrote the Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five poems for a female voice) simultaneously to his opera Tristan und Isolde. Because the music is a setting of some of the poems of Mathilde Wesendonck, the Lieder is commonly known as the "Wesendonck Lieder."

Here's a performance with Swedish mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter, conductor Marc Minkowski, and the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.