Schumann Lieder?
Schumann Lieder?
Hi, I'm a university student majoring in piano. I need to speak about the lieder of Schumann (my part is Liederkreis, Op.39 - Im Walde) and play it next week, for accompaniment class. I need comments about his entire lieder, about 'Liederkreis, Op.39 - Im Walde' and 'Dichterliebe, Op.48 - Ich Grolle Nicht' (I hope I'm not requesting too much...any information you know about these works would be helpful). If anyone knows more about these works, could you please reply?
Regards,
Steve
Regards,
Steve
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Yes they is, and so is mine!Opus132 wrote:Is sublime!Schumann Lieder
Around them hat mein life revolvt,
"Den Raetsel" hab'ich nie gesolvt.
Sorry, in a mood tonight.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich grolle nicht is one of my favorite songs. It is an exercise in irony. Heine's lyrics seem to say I don't complain, but Schumann's music utters one of the most heartrending complaints in the history of the arts. Listen to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sing it and try to rise to that level of intensity.
Im Walde is not one of Schumann's most beautiful songs, but it requires subtlety of expression. There is a sharp contrast between the first stanza, where wedding and hunting symbolizes and affirmation of life, and the second stanza when night and silence in the wood almost reminds one of Robert Frost stopping beside a wood on a snowy evening.
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