Despite the new attention given to the music of Clara Schumann, and the fact that her husband not only encouraged but actually goaded her as a song composer, Clara Schumann's lieder remain underrepresented on recordings. This release from the German audiophile label MDG, featuring one female and one male singer, is one of the few complete sets of her songs available, and perhaps the only one where each song is sung in its original key. The complete cycle is a recommended way to hear her songs, for they come from various ...
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Despite the new attention given to the music of Clara Schumann, and the fact that her husband not only encouraged but actually goaded her as a song composer, Clara Schumann's lieder remain underrepresented on recordings. This release from the German audiophile label MDG, featuring one female and one male singer, is one of the few complete sets of her songs available, and perhaps the only one where each song is sung in its original key. The complete cycle is a recommended way to hear her songs, for they come from various parts of her career and offer insights into her creative development, both as tied to Robert Schumann and as separate from him. Indeed, MDG's graphics correctly designate her as Clara Wieck for the four songs preceding her marriage to Robert, and these pieces are fascinating: imperfect, perhaps, but ambitious youthful works. Sample Der Wanderer, given its full impact by tenor Peter Gijsbertsen. Other highlights include Schumann's setting of Goethe's Das Veilchen (also set by Mozart),...
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