THE SONGS OF ROBERT SCHUMANN VOLUME 11

 

1 Es stürmet am Abendhimmel Op 89 No 1 [1'36]

2 Heimliches Verschwinden Op 89 No 2 [2'14]

3 Herbstlied Op 89 No 3 [2'07]

4 Abschied vom Walde Op 89 No 4 [1'44]

5 Ins Freie Op 89 No 5 [2'20]

6 Resignation Op 83 No 1 [3'20]

7 Der Einsiedler Op 83 No 3 [3'33]

8 Mein altes Roß Op 127 No 4 [3'11]

Drei Gesänge Op 95 [7'00]

9 Die Tochter Jephthas [2'09]

10 An den Mond [2'34]

11 Dem Helden [2'02]

Minnespiel Op 101

12 Meine Töne still und heiter [4'04]

13 Liebster, deine Worte stehlen [1'58]

14 Ich bin dein Baum [3'43]

15 Mein schöner Stern! [2'46]

16 Schön ist das Fest des Lenzes [4'07]

17 O Freund, mein Schirm, mein Schutz! [3'01]

18 Die tausend Grüße [1'50]

19 So wahr die Sonne scheinet [2'53]

Sechs Gedichte aus dem Liederbuch eines Malers Op 36

20 Sonntags am Rhein [2'33]

21 Ständchen [1'39]

22 Nichts Schöneres [1'53]

23 An den Sonnenschein [1'54]

24 Dichters Genesung [2'44]

25 Liebesbotschaft [4'30]

26 Provenzalisches Lied Op 139 No 4 [2'36]

27 Ballade Op 139 No 7 [2'14]

28 Der Handschuh Op 87 [4'52]

 

Hanno Müller-Brachmann - baritone

Graham Johnson - piano

with Katherine Broderick - soprano

Geraldine McGreevy - soprano

Stella Doufexis - mezzo-soprano

Adrian Thompson - tenor

Stephan Loges - baritone

 

Total Duration: 78'16

 

Graham Johnson’s monumental and triumphant complete Schumann Songs edition comes to an end with an eleventh disc of rarities and delights. The first issue in the Hyperion edition of Schuman’s songs, with the soprano Christine Schäfer, included a number of the composer’s later lieder, and with this last issue we come full circle in returning to some of the least known songs—music seldom heard on the concert platform. Hanno-Müller Brachmann appears in his debut recording for Hyperion. As well as a devoted lieder singer who has performed with some of the greatest living pianists, he is also a considerable presence on the world’s opera stages and an acclaimed interpreter of Bach’s Passions. He brings all these qualities to this fascinating disc.

 

Various duets and ensemble pieces are included on this disc and feature familiar and well-loved singers from elsewhere in this series, as well as the winner of the 2008 Kathleen Ferrier Prize: Katherine Broderick. The release is complemented by Graham Johnson’s renowned booklet notes, which make these discs things of such inestimable value.

 

Hyperion CDJ33111