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Annual German Critics' Prize for BR-KLASSIK Productions: Christian Gerheuer sings Schumannlieder |  News and criticism |  BR Classic

Annual German Critics’ Prize for BR-KLASSIK Productions: Christian Gerheuer sings Schumannlieder | News and criticism | BR Classic

Annual German Standard Critics Award for BR-KLASSIK Production

Christian Gerhauer sings the Schumann songs

09/28/2022 by BR-CLASSIC

Mega Project: All 299 songs written by Robert Schumann, recorded by Christian Gehrer and Jerrold Huber. Now the CD box, created in cooperation with BR-KLASSIK, has been awarded the German Standard Critics’ Prize.


The 2022 Annual German Critics’ Prize was awarded to Christian Gehrer and Gerold Huber in the category “Solo Recording Vocals”. Her full recording of all of Robert Schumann’s songs was honored. This was achieved between 2017 and 2020 with BR-KLASSIK in Studio 2 at the Broadcast Center in Munich – as a co-production with Sony Classical.

Christian Gerhir sang most of the songs himself

Baritone Christian Gerhauer and his piano partner Jerrold Huber are currently among the world’s most famous and well-known song translators. Christian Gehrer sang the majority of the songs that appeared on the eleven CDs himself. For female vocals, duets, trios, and pieces, Gehrer enlisted false vocalists he particularly appreciated: Camilla Teeling, Julia Kleiter, Sibylla Robbins, Wekki Lemkoll, Martin Mitrotzner and Camilla Teeling.

For me, Schumann is the greatest artist ever. Just as with the other Wagnerites, I am a Schumann.

Christian Gehrer

“I embarked on this journey because I feel that Schumann’s lie is fantastic,” Christian Gehrer explained shortly after recording. Schumann Songs “Maybe the pinnacle of a romantic song”. Schubert essentially invented the song genre and doesn’t shake Schubert’s genius if it develops a particularly nice niche for Schumann, much to the fervor of Geierhaer, to whom Schumann as an artist figure was particularly close and fascinated: “For me, Schumann is the artist par excellence.”

Here you can watch a documentary about the recordings at the Munich Funkhaus.

The CD box has received international attention: “Liedkunst in Perfection” books New Zurich Times. Parents The set of 299 songs is called “Irresistible”. And the New York times The two artists called the “world’s greatest song partnership” in their review.




Christian Gehrer |  Image source: BR




Image source: BR

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Christian Gehrer with Schumann’s “Love Song”

Broadcasting: “Leporello” on Sep 28, 2022 at 4:05 PM at BR-KLASSIK

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