ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
The Complete Songs
Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Christine Schäfer, Lydia Teuscher - soprano
Daniela Lehner, Ann Murray, Leigh Woolf - mezzo-soprano
Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Nicky Spence, Adrian Thompson, Adrian Ward - tenor
Simon Keenlyside, Jonathan Lemalu, Stephan Loges, Christopher Maltman, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Oliver Widmer - baritone
Graham Johnson, Stephen Hough - piano
Christoph Bantzer – reciter
Schumann’s songs are among the greatest musical achievements of the nineteeth century, and this is the perfect release with which to mark the composer’s 200th birthday.
This marvellous collection comprises Schumann’s complete songs, presented for the first time in their chronological sequence of composition, with complete song texts, and chronology of Schumann’s life and songs by Graham Johnson.
Johnson is, of course, also the curator and unifying musical force of this series, accompanying his hand-picked selection of singers – some of the greatest lieder performers of today, and indeed of tomorrow – with utter sensitivity.
Hyperion 10cds CDS44441-50