Track Listing

1. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Lust der Sturmnacht
2. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Stirb, Lieb'Und Freud'!
3. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Wanderlied
4. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Erstes Grun
5. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Sehnsucht Nach Der Waldgegend
6. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Auf Das Trinkglas
7. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Wanderung
8. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Stille Liebe
9. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Frage
10. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Stille Tranen
11. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Wer Macht Dich So Krank?
12. Songs (12) for voice & piano, Op. 35: Alte Laute
13. Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister (9) for voice & piano, Op. 98a: Mignon (Kennst Du Das Land)
14. Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister (9) for voice & piano, Op. 98a: Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt
15. Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister (9) for voice & piano, Op. 98a: Heiss'Mich Nicht Reden, Heiss'Mich Schweigen
16. Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister (9) for voice & piano, Op. 98a: So Lasst Mich Scheinen, Bis Ich Werde
17. Ihre Stimme ('Lass tief in dir mich lesen'), song for voice & piano, Op. 96/3
18. Himmel und Erde ('Wie der Bäume kühne Wipfel'), song for voice & piano, Op. 96/5
19. Mein schöner Stern, ich bitte dich, for tenor & piano (Minnespiel), Op. 101/4
20. Er und Sie ('Seh ich in das stille Tal'), duet for soprano, tenor & piano, Op. 78/2
21. Unter'm Fenster ('Wer ist vor meiner Kammertür?'), duet for soprano, tenor & piano, Op. 34/3
22. Wiegenlied ('Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf'), duet for soprano, tenor & piano, Op. 78/4

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #377170 in Music
• Released on: 2009-01-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Hunt Lieberson in one of her very best lieder programs
The New YOrk Festival of Sng, when I've encountered them on disc, present a variety of singers, but the two pianists who founded it in 1988, Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, remain constants. Here the trasure is Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing the seven Mignon songs of Schumann Op. 98. Not all are masterpieces, but her warm, sensitive, utterly musical performance makes you believe they are. You can hear the same song cycle in Hunt Lieberson's recently released Wigmore Hall recital that also contains Faurenliebe und Leben, but here she's fresher, the acoustic is less hollow, and the piano sounds better.

I wish I could praise her partner, baritone Kurt Ollmann, for his half of this CD, but his version of the Kerner Lieder op. 35, is dull and at times lachrymose. These are better songs than most of the Mignon cycle, but with great interpreters like Hampson and Fischer-Dieskau, this rendition is a pass. The prgram ends with three of Schumann's msot famous duets. As before, Hunt Lieberson's part is exquisite, Ollmann's intrusively clumsy.