IDAGIO | Anne Schwanewilms: Robert Schumann

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Anne Schwanewilms
Manuel Lange
Robert Schumann
Hugo Wolf

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Schumann himself considered his 'Liederkreis' op. 39 to be his 'most romantic music'.

Composition History

Robert Schumann's 'Liederkreis' op. 39 was composed in 1840, a year significant for his marriage and prolific song writing.

Performer Biography

Manuel Lange co-founded the Berlin concert series MEISTERLIED in 2006, which focuses on German Romantic art songs.

Performer Biography

Anne Schwanewilms, the soprano on this album, is considered one of the greatest Strauss and Wagner interpreters of our time.

Compositional Technique

Hugo Wolf often drew musical inspiration from Richard Wagner, particularly from the chromatics in 'Tristan', and introduced Wagner's linguistic melody into his songs.

Performer Biography

Manuel Lange, the pianist, became a professor of song accompaniment and performance at the Academy of Music in Detmold in 2011/12.

Critical Reception

The poet Joseph von Eichendorff initially found Josef Dessauer's settings of his poems 'unbelievably beautifully composed', and they were more popular than Schumann's at the time.