
Rather than the slightly overweight, everything-underlined, very broadly comic approach […]
This sixth volume in Hyperion’s ambitious complete songs of Robert Schumann project involves four soloists who perform individually and in various combinations of duets and
Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer are true singers’ pieces–and as such they’ve proven perennially attractive both to the most ardent amateurs and polished professionals. Among the latter, my
Respighi’s D minor Quartet (1909) sounds like anyone but Respighi. Its somewhat gnarly, chromatic language is nicely balanced by memorable ideas, though like many late-Romantic
Although Paul Dessau is probably best known for his stage, choral, and instrumental compositions, he wrote a considerable number of songs between 1914 and 1978,
There’s some wonderfully ardent singing on this CD, and some compelling passages of vocal color and shading. Christine Schäfer is an intelligent singer who understands