Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Graham Johnson - Schumann: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9 - Ann Murray & Felicity Lott

This ninth volume in the Hyperion Schumann Edition brings us to music Schumann wrote for children, and what a delight it proves to be. The Op 79 Liederalbum fur die Jugend�twenty-nine songs and duets composed in 1849�leads us on a journey through Schumann�s affinity with the mind and imagination of the musical child, a journey which here is sensitively puntuated by fifteen items from the Op 68 piano collection Klavieralbum fur die Jugend. The complementary effect of the two makes for a satisfying, and generously filled, CD.As ever, the disc is accompanied by a weighty essay on the music and its background from Graham Johnson.