Robert Schumann: Song Cycle op. 24 on Poems by Heine: Low Voice: Vocal Album

Song Cycle-1840 was Schumann?s famous ?year of song? that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25 which he dedicated ?to his dear bride? Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as ?Widmung? ?Lotosblume? and ?Nussbaum? to texts by German poets the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield whether to the Scottish Highlands with settings of Robert Burns or to Italy for the ?Venetian Songs? of Thomas Moore. Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa has examined the first edition of 1840 and all the manuscript sources. Among the dedicatory autograph copies she has also discovered interestingearly versions of individual songs that are here published in an appendix. Our Urtext edition is rounded off with an extensive history of how Myrthen was composed. This volume is a superlative addition to G. Henle Verlag?s series of Robert Schumann?s song cycles.

Robert Schumann once described his lieder as a ”mirror image of his self”. This applies particularly to his compositions from Heinrich Heine’s “Buch der Lieder”. What began as a lyrical intermezzo then developed into “Dichterliebe” a work with which Schumann identified the ardour of his love for Clara Wieck. This work still presents an enigma to performers; how Schumann interpretes Heine’s irony in his music is often discussed. But one thing is certain: with “Dichterliebe” the composer created what is perhaps the best-loved and one of the most tightly-woven lieder cycles of the Romanticperiod. This new edition presents the work based on the first edition. It takes Schumann’s autograph score into consideration an autograph score where there have recently been discussions as to whether it should be presented as an independent alternative version. The four lieder omitted by Schumann from the printed edition are included in the appendix. High-quality Urtext edition of this well-known song cycle Appendix includes four lieder by Schumann which he did not include in the original cycle Comprehensive foreword and critical commentary (Ger/Eng)

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

Song Cycle On Poems By Heine. The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation (?Im wunderschönen Monat Mai?) to solitary grief (?Und wüssten?s die Blumen, die kleinen?) and bitter sarcasm (?Die alten bösen Lieder?). Schumann knew what he was writing about: the cycle originated in the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck, an event that took place only after years of struggle. The tried-and-tested Henle Urtext edition by the Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa is now also available for singers with low voice: in close collaboration with the experienced pianist and renowned Lied accompanist Gerold Huber, we have adapted the whole cycle, including the four songs of the appendix, for medium and low voices.

'Yet you a man have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel!' Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe Und Leben.Schumann’s empathy with the highly romantic inflections of Adelbert von Chamisso‘s poetry may also have arisen from the circumstances that prompted this cycle for it was written during one of the happiest periods of hislife just before his marriage to Clara Wieck. Ever since its initial publication Frauenliebe Und Leben has been immensely popular with male and female singers alike. Now it appears for the first time in a Henleurtext edition equally well-suited for medium male or female voice (mezzo soprano or baritone).

Dichterliebe Op.48 is a beautiful cycle of song composed by Robert Schumann. These songs for Soprano or Tenor Voice are available here in their original keys. This Edition Peters Urtext edition provides you with an accurate realisation of the composer's original intentions with thoroughly detailed editorial markings and suggestions as edited by Hans Joachim Kohler.