Schone Wiege Meiner Leiden
) | Label: HARMONIA MUNDI Catalog: 901842 Format: CD Werner Güra, tenor; Christoph Berner, pianoBrahms; Clara Schumann; Robert Schumann 'Ah! Clara, what a pleasure to write for the voice!' Robert Schumann's enthusiasm for the world of lied must have been catching, for his wife Clara also turned to the genre. Brahms, for his part, was to cultivate a lifelong love of folksong. His meeting with the Schumann's opened up new horizons for him: this CD relates an astonishing musical conversation between the three of them. Here in songs and letters there is a musical and literary journey into Romanticism at is most exalted.  Price: $22.98 |