Release Date: 01 July 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Custom Packaging
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571131030
Composer/Series: Schumann
Description
The third issue in our series of ‘The Songs of Robert Schumann’ introduces the outstanding young German/Swiss soprano Julianne Banse to the Hyperion label in a programme of songs both familiar and unfamiliar, not to say extremely rare. At the hear of the disc is ‘Frauenliebe und leben’ recorded for the first time with Chamisso’s final poem (unset by Schumann), spoken by Miss Banse to complete the story: ‘Traum der eignen Tage’ (Dream of my own days that now are distant). The most extraordinary songs on the disc are the cycle of Seven Songs to the words of Elisabeth Kulmann, a gifted girl who died at the age of seventeen, who Schumann admired enough to write this ‘song biography’ of her, with his own words (recorded here) introducing each song. As usual the CD comes with Graham Johnson’s fascinating and exhaustive notes (over 40,000 words) with which collectors of our Schubert Edition are now well familiar.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Magdalena Kozena, Mitsuko Uchida
Liparit Avetisyan; Constantine Orbelian; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Joanna Klisowska|Katarzyna Neugebauer
Jean-Francois Borras; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Pierre Dumoussaud
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Joseph Havlat
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Anne-Lise Polchlopek; Federico Tibone; Pierre Laniau
Various Artists
