Robert Schumann: Lieder
composed by Robert Schumann, 1810-1856; produced by Simon Lawman; performed by Sarah Walker, 1943- and Roger Vignoles, 1945- (CRD), 1 hour 38 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- Classical Music
- Composer
- Robert Schumann, 1810-1856
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 1 hour 38 mins
- Recording Engineer
- Bob Auger, 1928-1998
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Song-Cycle, Lied, Song
- Label
- CRD
- Performer
- Sarah Walker, 1943-, Roger Vignoles, 1945-
- Producer
- Simon Lawman
- Date Recorded
- 1981-08-01
- Review
- Michaela Kaune has a powerful voice -- a skilled voice, a colorful voice, a beautiful voice, and an often affecting voice -- but also a powerful voice. She has an ideal voice for Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder, her first solo disc for Berlin Classics, but perhaps a less than ideal voice for Schumann's Lieder di Mignon and Frauenliebe und Leben. In her second Berlin Classics solo disc, Kaune takes on more personal, more vulnerable, more delicate repertoire, and her voice, some would argue, may be too powerful for the music. Possibly: the heartbreaking songs of a dying waif and the inward songs of a woman's life and love do require more intimacy than Strauss operatic four last songs -- but the key is that they require no less intensity. Although Kaune clearly has a powerful voice, she focuses it here, concentrating it on expressing the heighten emotion of the fusion of words and music and not on sending it out to the last row of the balcony. And the effect is altogether electrifying. Kaune is superb at getting inside the characters of the songs and at bringing them to life without histrionically dramatizing them. Accompanied by expert and sympathetic pianist Burkhard Kehring in a brilliantly chosen program mixing familiar and less familiar repertoire, Kaune uses her voice as a means to an end -- the ultimate end in any great lieder recital -- lyrical expression. Berlin Classics' sound is rich, lush, deep, and all but palpable. ~ James Leonard, All Music Guide
- Subject
- Classical Music, Music & Performing Arts, Romantic, Romanticismo, Romantica
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Romanticismo, Romantica