Release Date: 01 July 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Custom Packaging
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571131030
Description
The third issue in our series of âThe Songs of Robert Schumannâ 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 âFrauenliebe und lebenâ recorded for the first time with Chamissoâs final poem (unset by Schumann), spoken by Miss Banse to complete the story: âTraum der eignen Tageâ (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 âsong biographyâ of her, with his own words (recorded here) introducing each song. As usual the CD comes with Graham Johnsonâs fascinating and exhaustive notes (over 40,000 words) with which collectors of our Schubert Edition are now well familiar.
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
