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Category:  German Lieder  Art Songs
Label : Deutsche Grammophone
Extract from album : Lyrical Intermezzo no 1 -In beautiful May, when the buds sprang, love sprang up in my heart: in beautiful May, when the birds all sang, I told you my suffering and longing.
Description :
Dichterliebe, 'The Poet's Love' (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for the 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo of Heinrich Heine, composed 1822-1823, published as part of the poet's Das Buch der Lieder. Following the song-cycles of Franz Schubert (Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), those of Schumann constitute part of the central core ...

(254 hits)
Category:  German Lieder  Art Songs
Label : RECMUSIC
Description :
This Album is for 20th Century German Lieder, athough some late 19th century songs by composer who lived over the turn of the century can appear. Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss were the most important post Wagnerian German composers who wrote robust scores without apparent reservations about not reaching the height of that mighty peak, as atonalists such as Alben Berg (1885-1935) seem t ...

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Category:  German Lieder  Art Songs
Label : RCA Victor
Description :
Date: 1857 -1858 Wagner met Otto Wesendonck in Zurich in 1852. By April 1856, Wagner moved into this crucial patron's guest house and was much enchanted with Wesendonck's wife, Mathilde. By June 1857, he'd dropped Der Ring and its mythological profundities for Tristan und Isolde and its mystical sexualities. By September, he finished the libretto and started the music. By November, he ...