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SCHUMANN: 12 Gedichte aus 'Liebesfruhling', Op. 37 / Minnespiel, Op. 101

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Liebesfr�hling Minnespiel Wilhelm Meister Lieder The poet Friedrich R�ckert wrote his Liebesfr�hling (Love's Springtime) in...

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Liebesfr�hling Minnespiel Wilhelm Meister Lieder

The poet Friedrich R�ckert wrote his Liebesfr�hling (Love's Springtime) in 1821, when he himself was courting his future wife, Luise Wiethaus-Fischer. The complete collection of poems was first published in the Collected Poems of 1834, where the poet put them in five separate 'garlands', which, in a later, posthumous edition were increased to six in number.

From this most successful cycle of love poems of the Biedermeier period Robert Schumann had already set Du meine Seele, du mein Herz (Thou my soul, thou my heart) in 1840, publishing it in the collection Myrthen, Op. 25 under the title Widmung (Dedication), a wedding present for his bride Clara. A little later, in 1841, followed the setting of Twelve Poems from R�ckert's "Liebesfr�hling", partly composed by his wife Clara and partly by Robert Schumann himself, an artistic confirmation of a partnership still not overshadowed by sorrows and disagreements.

For Christmas 1840 Clara had placed on the Christmas gift-table for her husband some songs she herself had written, and this inspired Robert Schumann to this project: 'The idea of producing together with Clara a book of songs inspired me to this work. From Monday to Monday nine songs from R�ckert's Liebesfr�hling were written, in which I think again I have found a special voice', one reads for the week from 3rd to 10th January 1841 in the Marriage Diary kept alternately between the two.

Immediately preceding the Spring Symphony, the six solo songs which Schumann contributed to Liebesfr�hling include three duets. These come in the middle with No. 6 Liebste, was kann denn uns scheiden (Beloved, what can part us then?) and No. 7 Schon ist das Fest des Lenzes (Fair is the feast of spring), and at the end of the cycle comes No.

12 So wahr die Sonne (So true shines the sun). However, in lay-out, No. 6 is not a true duet, as the second voice is limited to a few parallels with the upper part at the interval of a third. In the present recording this is balanced so that the verses are heard from the singers in alternation.

To his diary entry Schumann added: 'Clara must now compose settings for some of the Liebesfr�hling. O do it, little Clara!' She was hampered by the start of pregnancy and also prevented through Robert's eagerness for his own compositions, but first fulfilled this wish for Schumann's birthday in June 1841: 'I have this week sat down to compose a great deal and have set four poems by R�ckert for my dear Robert', we read in the Marriage Diary. Three of these songs, Warum willst Du And're fragen (Why will you ask others), Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (He has come in storm and rain) and Liebst Du um Schonheit (If you love for beauty) were published in autumn 1841, together with Robert's nine songs and duets, by Breitkopf und Hartel.

In a letter to the publisher Robert Schumann stressed that his contribution to the work was 'mostly light and simple'. This applies particularly to the second song, O ihr Herren (O you lords) and the strophic sixth, Liebste, was kann denn uns scheiden. No. 5, Ich hab in mich gesogen (I have drunk in) is ingenious with its polyphonic accompaniment that repeats an ostinato figure of wideranging harmony, and the tripartite No. 8, Fl�gel! Fl�gel! (Wings! Wings!), with its slower central section.

Robert and Clara Schumann were delighted that Friedrich R�ckert, to whom they had sent a copy of their settings, replied to the gift with an ingenious ghazal:

Long it is, long

Since my love's springtime song

At the urge of my heart

As it sprang,

The music died away in solitude.

It was at twenty years

I heard here and there

From the flock of birds

One that clearly

Piped a tune, that was from there.

And now even

Comes in the twenty-first year

A pair of birds,

First makes clear to me

That not a note was lost.

My songs

You sing again,

My feelings you sound again,

My emotions

You bring to life again,

My spring

You bring back again,

Me, how fair,

You make young again:

Take my thanks,

Since the world too,

As with me once,

Witholds it from you!

And may you win thanks

As I have achieved with mine.

Disc 1

12 Gedichte aus 'Liebesfruhling', Op. 37 (excerpts)

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Composed by: Robert Schumann
Susanne Bernhard, soprano
Thomas Bauer, baritone
Uta Hielscher, piano

No. 1: Der Himmel hat eine Trane geweint - 1:47
No. 3: O ihr Herren - 0:55
No. 5: Ich hab' in mich gesogen - 2:06
No. 6: Liebste, was kann denn uns scheiden? - 2:34
No. 7: Schon ist das Fest des Lenzes - 1:06
No. 8: Flugel! Flugel! um zu fliegen - 3:30
No. 9: Rose, Meer und Sonne - 4:10
No. 10: O Sonn', o Meer, o Rose - 3:30
No. 12: So wahr die Sonne scheinet - 1:39

Lieder und Gesange aus Goethes Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a (excerpts)

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Composed by: Robert Schumann
Susanne Bernhard, soprano
Thomas Bauer, baritone
Uta Hielscher, piano

Ballade des Harfners - 5:38
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt - 3:00
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass - 2:46
Heiss mich nicht reden - 3:46
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt - 3:09
Singet nicht in Trauertonen - 2:19
An die Turen will ich schleichen - 1:59
So lasst mich scheinen, bis ich werde - 2:55

Minnespiel, Op. 101 (excerpts)

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Composed by: Robert Schumann
Susanne Bernhard, soprano
Thomas Bauer, baritone
Uta Hielscher, piano

No. 1: Meine Tone still und heiter - 3:27
No. 2: Liebster, deine Worte stehlen - 1:57
No. 3: Ich bin dein Baum, o Gartner - 4:43
No. 4: Mein schoner Stern! - 2:56
No. 6: O Freund, mein Schirm, mein Schutz - 4:04

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Composer(s):
Schumann, Robert

Artist(s):
Bauer, Thomas; Bernhard, Susanne; Hielscher, Uta

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 747313207428
Item Number: 8557074
Release Date: Jul 19, 2005