BaL 08.03.25 - Clara Schumann: Lieder

[Pulcinella]

Andrew McGregor features the latest classical releases for International Women's Day. Laura Tunbridge joins Andrew to discuss lieder by Clara Schumann in Building a Library.

That's all, folks!
Probably not worth trying to give any Presto link(s).

PS

This link is to Lieder collections

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/1825/browse?genre=10274

and this is to songs (haven't checked what overlap there is, if any)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/1825/browse?genre=10572

[oliver sudden]

When I was doing my first undergrad degree, the Robert Schumann op. 39 Liederkreis was on the syllabus. The lecturer mentioned that there was a theory that Clara Schumann was the author of the first song (“Aus der Heimat hinter den Blitzen rot…”). I’ve been curious over the last little while how that theory is getting on but haven’t been able to find any reference to it. Does it ring any bells for the present company?

[gurnemanz]

I have five recordings of Liebesfrühling (Robert's op. 37) to which Clara makes three contributions: Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen, Liebst du um Schönheit and Warum willst du andre fragen and these are the only songs of hers which I know at all well. The Presto links above contain quite a few discs which contain only individual songs and I would think BaL would concentrate on the 'complete' versions. I have been intending to get one of these for a while and always find Laura Tunbridge well worth paying attention to, so I shall be very interested in this one.

These are available complete edition discs I found:

Naxos - Clara Schumann - Complete Songs, Dorothea Craxton (soprano) & Hedayet Djeddikar (fortepiano)

cpo - Clara Schumann - Complete Songs, Gabriele Fontana & Konstanze Eickhorst

Hyperion The Songs of Clara Schumann - Susan Gritton (soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone), Eugene Asti (piano)

MDG - Clara Schumann: Complete Songs (Original Key) Miriam Alexandra; Peter Gijsbertsen; Jozef De Beenhouwer (seems not to be on Presto)


The album Sous l'eau du songe with Maria Riccarda Wesseling includes a dozen songs by Clara.

I have played via Spotify and really enjoyed the new disc Uncharted by countertenor, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, which has one Clara song.