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Schumann: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai – Heine-Lieder

3/3/2015, 30 Tracks, 1:04:30

Featuring

  • Sebastian Noack
  • Manuel Lange
  • Robert Schumann

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Performer Biography

Sebastian Noack, the baritone on this recording, is a guest professor of voice at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in October 2012 at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin-Dahlem.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schumann used specific key relationships between the Lieder in his cycles to create the impression of a self-contained, unified work.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Robert Schumann, who previously considered vocal music inferior to instrumental music, began writing art songs on a large scale in late 1839 or early 1840.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Manuel Lange, the pianist on this recording, is a professor of lied accompanying and interpretation at the Academy of Music in Detmold.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

This recording presents a baritone version of Schumann's two Heine song cycles, Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 24, which preserves the original key relationships between the songs.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Robert Schumann met Heinrich Heine, the poet whose texts he set to music, in Munich on May 8, 1828, an encounter that would influence him for years.

Source: Booklet

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