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It is a great pleasure to present, with Thanatopsis, maestro Kissin's opus 4, an expressive setting of the ground-breaking poem from the quill of William Cullen Bryant. Published in in the form known...

In Fanny Hensel’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 450 works, songs play a central role. They form the largest group of works and occupied her throughout her life as a composer: from the fourteen-y...

Quatuor à cordes no. 2 op. 10

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelu...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

The Four Serious Songs, op. 121, was to be the last work Brahms published before his death. These songs are closely linked to the death of his beloved friend Clara Schumann in May 1896. It is reported...

To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte" ("To the Distant Beloved"), which he completed at the age of 45 in April 1816? Was it to the same person, to whom his passionate l...

To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte" ("To the Distant Beloved"), which he completed at the age of 45 in April 1816? Was it to the same person, to whom his passionate l...

No singer is able to ignore Beethoven’s Adelaide. There are thousands of recordings, and many amateurs also love this lyrical setting of Friedrich von Matthisson’s poem. Matthisson himself said of it:...

No singer is able to ignore Beethoven’s Adelaide. There are thousands of recordings, and many amateurs also love this lyrical setting of Friedrich von Matthisson’s poem. Matthisson himself said of it:...

Joseph Haydn composed a large number of songs that were pushed somewhat into the background in contrast to his other works, but are nevertheless of the highest quality. This volume contains all his ve...

The famous ancient legend of Princess Ariadne, who is forsaken by her beloved Theseus, is a favourite subject in the history of opera. In his Italian solo cantata 'Arianna a Naxos', probably written i...

Carlo Francesco Badini (1715-1810) worked for a long time as a librettist at London's Italian opera house. In 1791, he wrote the text to Joseph Haydn's last opera 'L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed...

It is hard to believe that all of the five works included in this edition were previously unknown to musicians. So there are in fact unknown works by Beethoven for singers to discover! The five short...

Schumann was the first to set a complete cycle of Heinrich Heine's poems to music. His literary 'forks of lightning' had already fascinated Schumann when he was 17 years old. However, he only wrote op...

I would like to sing myself to death like a nightingale' - 1840, Schumann's most prolific 'song year', was marked by great private upheaval. He was only able to finally marry Clara in September after...

1840 was Schumann's famous 'year of song' that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated 'to his dear bride', Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as '...

To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle 'An die ferne Geliebte' ('To the Distant Beloved'), which he completed at the age of 45 in April 1816? Was it to the same person, to whom his passionate l...

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