Barbara Bonney Mondnacht Robert Schumann

My friend created this video for my You Tube channel. It features the sublime Barbara Bonney singing Mondnach by Robert Schumann.

Barbara Bonney is widely recognised as a superlative recital and concert artist and as one of the great Mozart singers of her generation. Her "Sophie" in Strauss' Rosenkavalier is legendary. She has been praised for her radiant tone and the engaging warmth of her personality, as well as for her stylistic versatility in a broad repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to 20th century music. She has made over 100 recordings with Decca, DGG, EMI, and Teldec, with the most important conductors and orchestras in the world today.

Robert Schumann,[1] sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann,[2] (8 June 1810 -- 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher, Friedrich Wieck, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury caused by a device he created with the false belief that it would help increase the size of his hands prevented that. One of the most promising careers as a pianist had thus come to an end. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

A poem by Joseph Von Eichenforff

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