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Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber: Schumann's complete lied oeuvre
Christian Gerhaher is one of the most important Lied interpreters of our time. Together with his long-standing duo partner, the pianist Gerold Huber, he has recorded all 299 of Robert Schumann's songs. For the duo, the latter's songs represent the pinnacle of musical romance and a unique marriage of text and music. They are the first to have devoted themselves with such intensity to the complete song oeuvre of Robert Schumann since Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epoch-making recording in the 1970s.
An artistic approach that opens up new perspectives
Gerhaher and Huber deliberately avoid a purely chronological or thematic order of the songs in order to preserve the unity of the cycles desired by Schumann. Earlier recordings were also critically revised. Particularly exciting are the new recordings of female voice cycles, rarely heard duets, trios and polyphonic works such as the "Spanisches Liederspiel" op. 74, with which Schumann raised the medium to a whole new artistic level.
Top-class artists and scientific support
In addition to Gerhaher and Huber, renowned singers such as Sibylla Rubens, Camilla Tilling and Julia Kleiter are also represented. The recording was accompanied scientifically by the Forschungsstelle Robert Schumann e.V. in Düsseldorf.
Excellent complete recording
The 11 CD box set "Schumann - Alle Lieder" was released in 2011 and is a co-production of Sony Classical, BR-KLASSIK and the Heidelberger Frühling Liedzentrum. She was awarded the prestigious Diapason d'Or Arte. Christian Gerhaher received the Opus Klassik for "Solo Recording" in 2022; he was already awarded "Singer of the Year" in 2021 for the first album of the edition "Schumann: Frage". The complete recording also won the 2022 German Record Critics' Award.