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By 1955, Schumann was busy composing and conducting the score to the classic Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter and won an Emmy for his wildly popular Dragnet theme. He recorded a space-age themed, spoken-word album titled Exploring the Unknown, and his "Voices" troupe recorded a popular, 19-track Christmas album, The Voices of Christmas.
Schumann in a Josef Kriehuber etching from 1839, the year preceding his marriage to Clara.It was at this time that he began to compose vocal music prolifically. The following is a list of the complete vocal output of Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856).
Robert Schumann. This list of compositions by Robert Schumann is classified into piano, vocal, orchestral and chamber works. All works are also listed separately, by opus number. Schumann wrote almost exclusively for the piano until 1840, when he burst into song composition around the time of his marriage to Clara Wieck. The list is based on ...
Robert Schumann [n 1] (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the ...
Belafonte re-recorded the song with the London Symphony Orchestra and the American Boy Choir for Hallmark's The Tradition of Christmas in 1991. Similarly, the song was arranged for chorus and recorded by the conductor Leonard De Paur for Columbia Records on the album Calypso Christmas in 1956 (Columbia, CL 923 Mono LP, 1956). [12]
The Voices of Christmas [75] The Voices of Walter Schumann: 1955 11/24/1958 1 59 Ventures' Christmas Album [76] The Ventures: 1965 12/18/1965 #9 2 2 9 60 Christmas Hymns & Carols [77] Robert Shaw: 1957 11/24/1958 8 61 12 Songs Of Christmas: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Fred Waring: 1964 12/19/1964 3 62 Merry Xmas From José Feliciano: José ...
The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998.
Die Singphoniker appeared in 1995 at the Rheingau Musik Festival, singing Gregorian chant to a recitation by Gert Westphal in Eberbach Abbey. [1] In 1999 they made their debut in New York at the Frick Collection, performing works by Schumann, Schubert and Mendelssohn as well as the Berliner Requiem by Kurt Weill on texts by Bertolt Brecht and songs of the Comedian Harmonists.