COMPANY: Naxos
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumanns literary background and cultivated taste is revealed in his choice of texts for musical setting. The emphasis in this collection is on songs with a narrative character, such as the tragic tale of Die feindlichen Brüder (Op. 49, No. 2) in which two brothers kill each other in a duel for love of the same girl. Further stories are drawn from those by Hans Christian Andersen. In around 1850 Schumann embarked on a series of melodramas with dramatic spoken dialogue over musical accompaniment. Notable among these lurid tiles of murder and retribution is the Ballade vom Haideknaben.

Schumann: Der Handschuh, Op. 87
Schumann: Des Sängers Fluch (The Minstrel's Curse), Op. 139
Schumann: Gesänge (3), Op. 31
Schumann: Lieder (5), Op. 40
Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen II, Op. 49