Brahms, Schumann and Mahler: Lieder
Renée Fleming (soprano), Hartmut Höll (piano), and the Munich Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann conducting
On her first Lieder album in nearly twenty years, Renee Fleming sings Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben and a selection of Brahms songs (including Wiegenlied, Lerchengesang, Mondnacht, and Die Mainacht) with Hartmut Höll, Piano. We also get to listen to Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with Christian Thielemann and the Münchner Philharmoniker.
Here is Ms. Fleming in music by Richard Strauss, conducted by the late Claudio Abbado: