Schumann: Lieder, Songs & Melodies

This disc includes the great cycle Frauenliebe und -leben, sung with ideal girlish innocence, maturing into disillusion. A glorious disc, with strong accompaniment. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:39 pm

COMPOSERS: Schumann
LABELS: Forlane
WORKS: Lieder, Songs & Melodies: Frauenliebe und -leben; Aus dem Liederbuch eines malers; Selected songs from Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79
PERFORMER: Margaret Price (soprano), Thomas Dewey (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: FOR 16711 (1994)

This disc includes the great cycle Frauenliebe und -leben, sung with ideal girlish innocence, maturing into disillusion. A glorious disc, with strong accompaniment. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.

Schumann: Lieder, Songs & Melodies

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