Claudia Barainsky Delian Quartett - Im Wachen Traume

Facts Delian Quartett/Claudia Barainsky - "I'm wachen Traume" / Named after a lyric from the first piece in Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben song cycle, the Delian Quartett's program of I'm wachen Traume combines said cycle - in a new arrangement for soprano and string quartet by the late Aribert Reimann - with music by Renaissance composer William Byrd and Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Most of the music appears in world premiere recordings here. The earlier English repertory bookends the album, framing Frauenliebe und Leben in a thematic embrace.