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The Lewis Music Library recently ordered the Hyperion Schumann Edition, a series of beautiful and award-winning recordings of Robert Schumann songs performed by top singers accompanied by pianist Graham Johnson. The final volume of the series is not yet released, but most of the discs have been received and are ready to circulate.

Click on a call number link to see the Barton catalog record:

Schumann, Robert. The Hyperion Schumann edition: Complete songs = Sämtliche Lieder = Mélodies intégrales.
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.1 [Christine Schäfer, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano]
vol.2 on order [Simon Keenlyside, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.3 [Juliane Banse, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.4 [Stella Doufexis, mezzo-soprano; Oliver Widmer, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton, conductor (in the partsongs)]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.5 [Christopher Maltman, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; with Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.6 [Geraldine McGreevy, soprano; Stella Doufexis, alto; Adrian Thompson, tenor; Stephan Loges, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; Stephen Hough, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.7 [Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Ian Bostridge, tenor; Graham Johnson, piano; Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.8 [Mark Padmore, tenor; Christopher Maltman, Jonathan Lemalu, baritones; Graham Johnson, piano; with members of the Ex Cathedra Consort]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.9 [Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, sopranos; Graham Johnson, piano]
1481647 precat (vol.10 of the series) [Kate Royal, Felicity Lott, Lydia Teuscher, sopranos; Ann Murray, Daniela Lehner, mezzo-sopranos; Stephan Loges, baritone; Christoph Bantzer, reciter; Graham Johnson, piano]

Music CDs and DVDs circulate for 3 days (limit of 5; no renewals). The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.