ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) Songs Volume 10

 

Liederkreis Op 39 EICHENDORFF Kate Royal [25'55]

1 In der Fremde [1'58] 2 Intermezzo [1'49] 3 Waldesgespräch [2'36] 4 Die Stille [1'32] 5 Mondnacht [3'56] 6 Schöne Fremde [1'24]

7 Auf einer Burg [2'46] 8 In der Fremde [1'37] 9 Wehmut [2'31] 10 Zwielicht [3'00] 11 Im Walde [1'22] 12 Frühlingsnacht [1'24]

13 Schön Hedwig Op 106 HEBBEL Christoph Bantzer [5'43]

Zwei Balladen für Deklamation Op 122 Christoph Bantzer [9'33]

14 Ballade vom Haideknaben HEBBEL [6'32] 15 Die Flüchtlinge SHELLEY [3'01]

Drei Gedichte nach Emanuel Geibel Op 29 GEIBEL [8'34]

16 Ländliches Lied Lydia Teuscher, Daniela Lehner [2'23] 17 Lied (‘In meinem Garten die Nelken’) Lydia Teuscher, Edith Barlow, Daniela Lehner [2'27]

18 Zigeunerleben Lydia Teuscher, Edith Barlow, Melanie Lang, Daniela Lehner, Adrian Ward, Nicky Spence, Lukas Kargl, Stephan Loges, Marcus Gruett [3'44]

19 Die Nonne Op 49 No 3 FRÖHLICH Lydia Teuscher [2'37]

20 Was soll ich sagen? Op 27 No 3 CHAMISSO Stephan Loges [2'36]

21 Frühlingsgrüsse LENAU Lydia Teuscher [1'35]

Drei Duette Op 43 Felicity Lott, Ann Murray [5'59]

22 Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN [1'10] 23 Herbstlied MAHLMANN [2'17] 24 Schön Blümelein REINICK [2'32]

25 Mein Garten Op 77 No 2 HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN Felicity Lott [2'07]

26 Sommerruh WoO7 SCHAD Felicity Lott, Ann Murray [3'01]

Mädchenlieder Op 103 KULMANN Felicity Lott, Ann Murray [6'04]

27 Mailied [1'07] 28 Frühlingslied [1'45] 29 An die Nachtigall [1'06] 30 An den Abendstern [2'06]

31 Bei Schenkung eines Flügels WoO26 No 4 SCHUMANN Lydia Teuscher, Daniela Lehner, Adrian Ward, Stephan Loges [1'48]

 

Kate Royal, soprano

Graham Johnson, piano

with Felicity Lott, soprano

Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano

Christoph Bantzer, reciter

 

Graham Johnson’s Schumann songs series for Hyperion has reached its penultimate volume. In this series, the most exciting young artists — as well as the most experienced Schumann performers — have produced masterful yet intimately communicative performances of varied programmes of these wonderful works. Kate Royal is the soprano of the moment, at the start of her career yet an acknowledged great artist, and her performance here of the Eichendorff Liederkreis Op 39 is one where ‘imagination, intellect and vocal technique are inextricably fused in the single moment of a song’, as The Times wrote of her Wigmore Hall recital in January this year.

 

The disc also features enchanting vocal chamber pieces and less well-known songs such as the Drei Gedichte nach Emanuel Geibel. As ever, the disc includes comprehensive and fascinating notes supplied by Graham Johnson that fill out every detail of the genesis, context and publication of these masterpieces.

 

Hyperion CDJ33110