Hyperion Records | Schumann R: The Songs of Robert Schumann, Vol. 03

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CDJ33103

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Recording details: November 1998
All Saints, Durham Road, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: July 1999
Total duration: 71 minutes 25 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

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GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'The care that has gone into the literary and musicological side of the project is perfectly matched by the musical results. Banse proves to be a wonderfully perceptive interpreter. In every respect this is a wonderful Lieder disc' (The Guardian)

'An unqualified success … a glorious interpreter, warm-voiced and wholly in sympathy with the task in hand. The famous cycle Frauenliebe und Leben receives a peerless reading' (The Daily Telegraph)

'[Juliane Banse] is a born lieder interpreter. A must-buy for lieder lovers' (The Sunday Times)

'Banse's enchanting purity of line and ability to shape this music with the subtlest of tonal and dynamic inflections are a constant source of pleasure. Hyperion's standards of presentation are typically faultless' (Hi-Fi News)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

The Songs of Robert Schumann, Vol. 03 – Juliane Banse

Juliane Banse (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

		Romanzen und Balladen III, Op 53
1		No 2: Loreley [1:23]
		Lieder und Gesänge I, Op 27
2		No 4: Jasminenstrauch 'Grün ist der Jasminenstrauch' [0:46]
3		No 1: Sag' an, o lieber Vogel mein [1:46]
		Drei Gesänge, Op 31
4		No 2: Die Kartenlegerin [3:27]
		Romanzen und Balladen III, Op 53
5		No 1: Blondels Lied [5:17]
		Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42
6		No 1: Seit ich ihn gesehen [2:44]
7		No 2: Er, der Herrlichste von allen [3:17]
8		No 3: Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben [1:35]
9		No 4: Du Ring an meinem Finger [2:45]
10		No 5: Helft mir, ihr Schwestern [1:55]
11		No 6: Süsser Freund, du blickest [4:26]
12		No 7: An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust [1:23]
13		No 8: Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan [3:59]
		Frauenliebe und -leben
14		No 9: Traum der eignen Tage [1:50] Juliane Banse (reader)
		Lieder und Gesänge III, Op 77
15		No 3: Geisternähe [1:57]
		Romanzen und Balladen IV, Op 64
16		No 1: Die Soldatenbraut [2:09]
		Lieder und Gesänge IV, Op 96
17		No 2: Schneeglöckchen [3:07]
		Lieder und Gesänge III, Op 77
18		No 4: Stiller Vorwurf [1:29]
		Lieder und Gesänge IV, Op 96
19		No 4: Gesungen! [1:08]
20		No 5: Himmel und Erde [1:58]
		Sieben Lieder von Elisabeth Kulmann, Op 104
21		No 1: Mond, meiner Seele Liebling [2:30]
22		No 2: Viel Glück zur Reise, Schwalben! [1:22]
23		No 3: Du nennst mich armes Mädchen [1:34]
24		No 4: Der Zeisig [1:16]
25		No 5: Reich mir die Hand, o Wolke [1:45]
26		No 6: Die letzten Blumen starben [2:05]
27		No 7: Gekämpft hat meine Barke [2:22]
28		Postlude: Nachschrift [0:46] Juliane Banse (reader)
		Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op 135
29		No 1: Abschied von Frankreich [1:44]
30		No 2: Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes [1:14]
31		No 3: An die Königin Elisabeth [1:40]
32		No 4: Abschied von der Welt [3:06]
33		No 5: Gebet [1:40]

The third issue in our series of ‘The Songs of Robert Schumann’ introduces the outstanding young German/Swiss soprano Julianne Banse to the Hyperion label in a programme of songs both familiar and unfamiliar, not to say extremely rare. At the hear of the disc is ‘Frauenliebe und leben’ recorded for the first time with Chamisso’s final poem (unset by Schumann), spoken by Miss Banse to complete the story: ‘Traum der eignen Tage’ (Dream of my own days that now are distant). Te most extraordinary songs on the disc are the cycle of Seven Songs to the words of Elisabeth Kulmann, a gifted girl who died at the age of seventeen, who Schumann admired enough to write this ‘song biography’ of her, with his own words (recorded here) introducing each song. As usual the CD comes with Graham Johnson’s fascinating and exhaustive notes (over 40,000 words) with which collectors of our Schubert Edition are now well familiar.