Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Lied-And-Mélodie Beauties From Viktor Ullmann

...Christina Landshamer’s song recital on Oehms has two short cycles by Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann (1898 – 1944) embedded in selected Robert Schumann songs. You could take the CD as a business card of Christina Landshamer’s, a young and fast-rising all-purpose soprano from Munich, presenting a bit of the conventional with Schumann alongside the unusual with Ullmann (fair enough) and celebrating her youthful, neutral, natural voice – channeled and slightly accelerated through an artificial narrowness – in the process...

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Lied-And-Mélodie Beauties From Viktor Ullmann

Viktor Ullmann, Robert Schumann, Lieder & Sonnets, Christina Landshamer, Gerold Huber, Oehms