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