von Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff-Original edition for medium voice.Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Ger).The song texts are printed separately and include English translations taken from Richard Stokesâ?? publication The Book of Lieder.Schumannâ??s Liederkreis after poems by Joseph von Eichendorff comprises settings of twelve texts with the common motif of being far from home. This new edition presents the work in its definitive form published in the second edition of 1850 while taking into account Schumannâ??s autograph manuscript and other relevant sources. The detailed Foreword brings out the special nature of this cycle. Alternativereadings from the autograph offer valuable suggestions for a nuanced performance.Already published:Robert SchumannDichterliebe Op.48 BA 7851Liederkreis by Heinrich Heine Op.24 BA 7852Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42 BA 7854

The Complete Verlaine Settings (1887–1894) Critical edition-Gabriel Fauré’s seventeen settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine mark the biggest single stylistic leap of his compositional career and arguably one of the high points of the entire art song repertoire. The present edition contains the three individual settings Claire de lune Spleen and Prison together with the Op. 58 “Venetian” Songs and the magnificient cycle La Bonne Chanson. With its focus both practical and scholarly this new Complete Edition of songs aims to encourage creative confident and well informed performance. Founded on study of hundreds of manuscripts and printedsources it has been tested internationally in masterclasses workshops seminars concerts and recordings. In this it takes a lead from the composer who prepared his own editions on the basis fo performing experience. The edition also assimilates interpretative insights from musicians who worked with Fauré as well as from his documented performing preferences.