This second disc in the Naxos complete Schumann Lieder series features Twelve Poems from Rückert’s Liebesfrühling (‘Love’s Springtime’), one of the most successful cycles of German love poems of the 19th century. Composed jointly by Robert and his wife during 1840 and 1841, the settings met with the rapturous approval of Friedrich Rückert himself. The much later Minnespiel (‘Love’s Game’) and Wilhelm Meister settings display a substantially new treatment of the voice part, making greater use of recitative, declamation and chromaticism.