No survey of German art song recordings would be complete without baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This is perhaps the finest recording in a tragically short vocal career, with Schiøtz at the height of his vocal powers, mingling beautiful tone with sensitive handling of the text, and with Gerald Moore's customary impeccable partnering. Robert Schumann / Peter Schreier, Norman Shetler: Robert Schumann / Peter Schreier, Norman Shetler - Dichterliebe Op. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to amental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Heine found his voice as a poet very early in his career, establishing his reputation with his second volume, the Tragödien, nebst einem lyrischen Intermezzo (Tragedies with a Lyric Intermezzo) of 1823. Details. Browse: Schumann - Dichterliebe, Op. Unfortunately, no currently available published edition does this; the Peters medium and low voice editions don't transpose some songs at all, and take others down variable distances. 0000011707 00000 n This has been reissued on a Danacord CD. As of this moment, my favorite recording is Gérard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin's 1961 classic for Philips (sadly, not currently available on CD). This song cycle was one of the earlier products of Schumann’s Liederjahr (Year of Song), referring to his nearly exclusive devotion to song composition from 1840-1841, immediately after his marriage to Clara Wieck. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness. Unfortunately, Fischer-Dieskau's studio recordings were all made in the 1960's and 1970's, by which time his voice had gained a barking, hectoring tone which can be unappealing. Although the text set in the opening song contains no hint of the bitter turmoil awaiting the poet, Schumann’s harmonic and voice-leading procedures skillfully underlay this brief opening movement with a … Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, written in just a week at the end of May in 1840, follows a “clear narrative through…poetry” of a person who is mourning lost love and overcoming the heartbreak that inevitably follows. In that oeuvre, the songs to texts by Heinrich Heine stand out. Harmonia Mundi: HMU907521. Perhaps Heine's intrinsic contradictions appealed to Schumann's split personalities. 48, Liederkreis Op. Liederkreis, Op. 0000001176 00000 n 0000006174 00000 n Heine's poetry is rooted in riddles, allegories, allusions, dreams and above all ambivalences and contradictions. 39, comes from the long tradition of “Wanderer” cycles documenting a young man’s adventures in the wide world, whereas Dichterliebe, op. 0000008185 00000 n This recording of Schumann’s two most famous “canonical” song cycles would seem at first to pair disparate entities. Prégardien demonstrates his customary qualities, including scrupulous attention to dynamics and markings, a relatively restrained approach to ritards and rubatos, and a relatively vibrato-free tone which allows him to play up the consonances and dissonances with the piano part. Last updated: September 1, 2017 by James C.S. 0000002058 00000 n For those adventuresome enough to try to do a consistent transposition, there is now another option. 48. Schanze, Helmut and Schulte, Krischan, eds. 0000009314 00000 n Dichterliebe was also edited by Max Friedländer for their edition of the complete songs and has also been issued by Peters as a … 0000039523 00000 n To read the rest of the article, please click here. 0000007704 00000 n Glendower Jones at Classical Vocal Reprints has a new published edition of all 20 songs taken down a major second. Today it is considered one of the great examples of German art song and a challenge required of any tenor or baritone hoping to make his mark in the genre. translation. 0000004652 00000 n 48, sets 16 poems by Heinrich Heine for solo voice and piano. 0000003413 00000 n Text: Heine, Heinrich. Robert Schumann: Poet's Love Op.48: Voice: Vocal Album The recital is also available as part of a multi-disc set which includes material from ten years of Salzburg Festival recitals. 0000001933 00000 n Schumann first composed Dichterliebe as a group of 20 songs during his famous ‘year of song’ – 1840 – a time when he poured out his feelings of fierce and youthful love for his new bride Clara into hundreds of romantic songs for voice and piano. For Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome, Schumann elicits the feel of Köln Cathedral, whose bells were the first in Christendom to sound out three consecutive notes of the scale, by playing a bell-like figure in the left hand while the right hand plays snatches of a Bach organ prelude. 0000006398 00000 n Ich hab' im Traum geweinet evokes Heine's nightmares with one of the sparest piano parts ever put into an art song, while the voice recalls melodic fragments from Wenn ich in deine Augen seh, casting the words of that poem in a new light. It was reissued by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885 as part of a Complete Schumann Edition, edited by Clara Schumann. Showing 1 - 10 of 134 results He finally married Clara in 1840, the same year in which he wrote "Dichterliebe" and 153 other songs, later dubbed his "Year of Song". Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (No.1) 0000017028 00000 n %PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ Poem numbers refer to the published order in the first edition of Heine's Buch der Lieder. 0000015210 00000 n Schumann's music is challenging to sing, testing both the highest heights and the lowest depths of a tenor voice. Schumann fell in love with Clara Wieck, the pianist prodigy daughter of his piano teacher Friedrich Wieck. 0000010717 00000 n C.F. The “Eichendorff” Liederkreis, op. What began as a lyrical intermezzo, then developed into"Dichterliebe", a work with which Schumann identified the ardour of his love for Clara Wieck. In addition, some of the awkward piano writing gets even more awkward when the fingers shift positions on the keys. 0 Liu, with assistance from Alison Hickey, Emily Spear, Kathy Gerlach, and especially invaluable input from James Wilkinson. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Schumann Dichterliebe No. This is the best, cleanest critical edition currently available, and also includes published copies of the four songs deleted from the cycle. 30 44 Dichterliebe, 16 Songs on Poems by Heinrich Heine Composed by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) English translation found on Lieder.net, by (username) Paul Hindemith 1. CD sheet music set of late Romantic German lieder, the Norton critical edition edited in 1971 by Arthur Komar, Urtext edition of the score edited in 2006 by Kakuzo Ozawa, Aksel Schiøtz, tenor; Gerald Moore, piano, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Gerald Moore, piano, Gérard Souzay, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano, Christoph Prégardien, tenor; Andreas Staier, hammerflügel, The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: a modern English version, Robert Schumann, Words and Music: the vocal compositions, Dichterliebe: nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine : Opus 48 für Singstimme und Klavier, Dichterliebe: an authoritative score, historical background, essays in analysis, views and comments, on-line music library at the Indiana University School of Music, Robert Schumann: New Edition of the Complete Works, Literary text used in solo songs, part songs, and works for vocal declamation, IPA Source texts and phonetic transcriptions, A guide to musical settings of Heine's poetry, Note: Song numbers refer to the order in Schumann's original 20-song submission; the Opus numbers either indicate the order in the published. 24. The sixty-six poems of the Lyric Intermezzo explore the emotions of someone who has just lost a sweetheart, and often these conflicting emotions tangle in the same poem. Dichterliebe, "A Poet's Love" (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann (Op. Some of the dissonances have powerfully expressive effects when paired with Staier's playing. Dichterliebe, Op.48 (Schumann, Robert) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 16 lieder ... Boutarel's text in red ink, Barbier's in crayon Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musique (F-Pn): RES VMA MS-738 Purchase: Javascript is required for this feature. Robert Schumann may have put it best when he wrote, "At certain points in time, (Heine's) poetry dons the mask of irony in order to conceal its visage of pain; perhaps for a moment the friendly hand of a genius may lift that mask so that wild tears may be transformed into pearls.". 0000032377 00000 n earlymusic.bc.ca Text Insert - Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Brahms’ Four Serious Songs Vancouver Bach Festival 2017 3 1 (Op. Note: Brackets indicate where Schumann altered Heine’s original text. Taken from wikipedia. 73 0 obj <>stream around our beloved Lady. Completed in 1840, Robert Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love), Op. Dichterliebe was originally published by C.F. 53, No. See Full Entry trailer He completed it in a week. 0000015057 00000 n Schumann's Dichterliebe Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), Dichterliebe, Op 48. 0000030862 00000 n Schumann: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh; Doch wenn ich küße deinen Mund startxref [disclaimer]   [please contact me if you wish to reproduce this translation]   [back to the top], [disclaimer]   [please contact me if you wish to reproduce this translation]   [back to the top], Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne, And if they knew it, the blooms, the little ones, composers began setting his poems to music within a year of the book's publication, four songs would be removed from the cycle, sound out three consecutive notes of the scale, flowers and little angels Schumann continues his knack for creating literary effects in music: the wistful, ambivalent longing of Im wunderschönen Monat Mai is expressed in unsteady harmony veering between major and relative minor before settling on an unresolved dominant seventh chord. Peters. The goal of these contradictions is to create a bridge to another world, though it is not clear if the ultimate aim is forgiveness and redemption or bitterness and isolation. In any event, many of Schumann's most beloved songs are set to Heine texts. Similar items. hÞb```b``=ÄÀÆÀÀ~ŠA€€bl,s@. Title Dichterliebe Contributor Names Schumann, Robert -- 1810-1856 Heine, Heinrich -- 1797-1856 0000023453 00000 n In the wonderfully beautiful month of May In the wonderfully beautiful month of May When all the buds are bursting open, There, from my own heart, Bursts forth my own love. 0000008210 00000 n 0000006285 00000 n PREFACE The purpose of this work, an analysis of the song cycle Dichterliebe (Op. Heinrich Heine was still a young university law student (and, until his conversion from Judaism two years later, still named Harry Heine) when, in 1823, he completed his second collection of poems, Lyric Intermezzo. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen III. 0000027396 00000 n In this way, Schumann created a song cycle that remains a perennial favorite in the art song literature. And Schumann uses common musical motifs between songs to pull ideas together, such as the disembodied melodies bringing forth painful memories in Hör ich das Liedchen klingen and Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, and the parallel postludes of Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, and the final Die alten, bösen Lieder. 0000005795 00000 n %%EOF 48). 48. Moreover, Schumann assembled the songs with a clear intent to the sequence of the keys (see Komar for the best discussion of this). Heine mixed naked honesty with savage irony, constructed a folk-like simplicity with the keenest artifice, mingled autobiography with fantasy, comedy and tragedy, love and hate. So even more than in Schubert, it is fairly important to preserve relationships between keys of different songs, and ideally take all the songs down an equal distance. Henle has also brought out an Urtext edition of the score edited in 2006 by Kakuzo Ozawa which has detailed notes comparing the working manuscript, Robert and Clara's copies of the first edition of 1844. 0000012457 00000 n Die Rose, die Lilie IV. 0000012775 00000 n Following the song-cycles of Franz Schubert (Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), those of Schumann constitute part of the central core of the genre in musical literature. 48, No. Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love) was part of the creative surge of 1840, Schumann’s “year of song”, and the year he married Clara Wieck, during which he produced more than 130 Lieder. The Henle Urtext edition is not available in any key other than the original, and the other budget editions also don't respect Schumann's original harmonic design.