Peter Schreier - Schumann: Lieder (2014)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 876 MB | Tracks: 112 | 255:27
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 876 MB | Tracks: 112 | 255:27
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
The piercing intelligence and dry registered ardour of Peter Schreier's particular qualities as a Lieder singer are ideally suited to the impulsive, dramatic, often melancholy spirit of Schumann's idiom, which itself found fullest expression in the songs that he wrote throughout his life and which this set so usefully surveys, from the total identification of the Romantic artist with his life and loves in the Liederkreis Op.24 to elliptical and ruminative settings of Lenau, the last work that Schumann composed in Dresden before his move to Düsseldorf, now less well-known than they should be but touched by circumstantial tragedy: Lenau's death was announced on the day of the first performance. The composer felt 'as if I were a tolling-bell all unawares and later wrote to his publisher, urging a speedy release of the cycle: 'I should be pleased if you would help me create a modest monument to the great but unfortunate poet'.