Voice and piano work in tandem to heighten poeticexpression in Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. The song cycle, which sets a dozen texts by Josephvon Eichendorff, reinforces the spirit of Romanticmetaphors of separation, longing and loneliness.
Stephan Loges and Simon Lepper launch theirrecital with a sequence of evocative ballads andsongs by Loewe and Brahms.