Robert Schumann: Poet's Love Op.48: Voice: Vocal Album

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 cycleoriginated in the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck an event that took place only after years of struggle. Originally the sixteen-piece cycle was meant to include twenty lieder. Our volume reproduces the four discarded numbersin an appendix.