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This disc launches Hyperion's Schumann Lieder project as auspiciously as Dame Janet Baker's recital opened their Complete Schubert Edition. As ever, Graham Johnson shows an unerring gift for... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDJ33101
Label: Hyperion
Series: Schumann Song Edition
Length: 74 minutes

Excerpt, Schumann: Sechs Gesänge, Op. 89

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

VI. Röselein, Röselein!

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder Op. 142

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

III. Mädchen-Schwermut

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Excerpt, Schumann: Drei Gesänge, Op. 83

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

II. Die Blume der Ergebung

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Excerpt, Schumann: Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

VI. Melancholie

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Excerpt, Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

No 07a. Zigeunerliedchen I

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No 07b. Zigeunerliedchen II

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Excerpt, Schumann: Heitere Gesänge, Op.125

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

III. Die Meerfee

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Schumann: Sechs Gesänge Op. 107

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

I. Herzeleid

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II. Die Fensterscheibe

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III. Der Gärtner

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IV. Die Spinnerin

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V. Im Wald

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VI. Abendlied

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder und Gesänge IV, Op. 96

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

III. Ihre Stimme

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I. Nachtlied

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder und Gesänge aus Goethes Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

VII. Singet nicht in Trauertönen

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III. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt

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V. Heiss' mich nicht reden

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IX. So lasst mich scheinen

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I. Mignon 'Kennst du das Land?'

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Schumann: Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op 90

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

I. Lied eines Schmiedes

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II. Meine Rose

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III. Kommen und Scheiden

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IV. Die Sennin

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V. Einsamkeit

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VI. Der schwere Abend

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VII. Requiem

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Excerpt, Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen IV, Op. 64

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

II. Das verlassene Mägdlein

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Excerpt, Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

XXIII. Er ist's

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Excerpt, Schumann: Gedichte (3), Op. 119

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

II. Warnung

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Excerpt, Schumann: Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

I. Sängers Trost

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder und Gesänge III, Op. 77

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

V. Aufträge

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This superlative disc is the first in a series that includes all the vocal music of Robert Schumann for voice and piano. It contains a majority of Lieder from the alter years of the composers life. As we have come to expect from Graham Johnson, the CD comes with comprehensive notes on the songs, along with biographical sketches of the many poets set by Schumann. Christine Schfers singing is faultless. Most of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Schumann: The Complete Songs: 'A landmark issue no serious collector should be without' (The Mail on Sunday).

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2010

This disc launches Hyperion's Schumann Lieder project as auspiciously as Dame Janet Baker's recital opened their Complete Schubert Edition. As ever, Graham Johnson shows an unerring gift for matching singer and song. These are almost all late pieces, written between 1849 and 1852 under the shadow of depression and sickness; and their intense chromaticism can all too easily seem tortuous. However, imaginatively supported by Johnson, Christine Schäfer illuminates each of these songs with her pure, lucent timbre, her grace and breadth of phrase and her unselfconscious feeling for verbal meaning and nuance.
The voice is an expressive, flexible lyric-coloratura; she can spin a scrupulously even legato, integrates the high notes of, say, 'Er ist's' perfectly within the melodic line, and has the breath control to sustain the long phrases of 'Requiem' with apparent ease.
Aided by Johnson's lucid textures and subtle feel for rubato and harmonic direction, Schäfer avoids any hint of mawkishness in songs like 'Meine Rose', Op 90 No 2, 'Mädchen-Schwermut' and 'Abendlied. Several songs here have been overshadowed or eclipsed by the settings by Schubert, Wolf or Brahms, and Schäfer and Johnson do much to rehabilitate them.
Schäfer brings an exquisite wondering stillness to the Goethe 'Nachtlied', more disturbed and earthbound than Schubert's sublime setting, but here, at least, scarcely less poignant. She also has the dramatic flair to bring off the difficult Mignon songs, especially the volatile, quasioperatic 'Heiss' mich nicht reden' and 'Kennst du das Land', where the final verse, evoking Mignon's terrifying passage across the Alps, builds to a climax of desperate, almost demented yearning. At the other end of the emotional spectrum, Schäfer brings a guileful, knowing touch to the first of the Zigeunerliedchen; the Mendelssohnian 'Die Meerfee' glistens and glances and 'Aufträge' has a winning eagerness and charm, with a delicious sense of flirtation between voice and keyboard. A delectable, often revelatory recital. The recording is natural and well balanced, while Graham Johnson provides typically searching commentaries.

The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 1

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