Schumann: Lieder, Songs & Melodies
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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
Authors
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.