Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben
Brahms: 8 songs Op. 57
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Recorded at the Wigmore Hall, London
Alex Ross of the New Yorker has put this recording on his list of the ten best classical-music recordings of 2008.
The recording contains “what must be one of the best performances of Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und –leben on record,” writes John Woods at MusicalCriticism.com.
