Complete Lieder : C.Schafer, Banse, Roschmann, F.Lott, A.Murray, Bostridge, Keenlyside, G.Johnson, etc (10CD)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) : The Complete Songs

Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Roschmann, Kate Royal, Christine Schafer, 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 Muller-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 greatst lieder performers of today, and indeed of tomorrow - with utter sensitivity.