Search - Robert Schumann, Oliver Widmer, Stella Doufelix :: The Songs of Robert Schumann 4 / Oliver Widmer, Stella Doufelix, Graham Johnson

It should be a candidate of this year's best disc of lieder.

Sen Peng Eu | Kaohsiung, Taiwan | 07/27/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This disc is wonderful! With Johnson's excellent accompaniment, two young singers give us some noble and authentic performance. Both Doufexis and Widmer have an very neat tone and clear articulation, and their interpretations are noble, without too sentimental and over-emphysis. I found myself exciting listening to this newest Hyperion Schumann Lieder of this series, since I am a bit disappointed at vol 2&3. And I think, wow, the old excellent Johnson- plus- an- unfamiliar- but- extraordinary- singer is come back! I will nominate this disc to be a candidate of this year's best lieder disc. BTY, interesting enough, Listeners will find some of Clara's lieder here are better than Schumann's. Johnson's booknote is as same incomparable. The record is well. The only disappointment is the 2 lieder sung by chorus, it sounds a bit (only a bit) strange in structure and articulation."