BaL 28.12.19 - Schumann: Dichterliebe

[Lordgeous]

Shame that Ian Partridge didn't even get a mention, or the Pears/Britten (aquired taste though that might be) but I did like her reccomendations too. Another case maybe of BAL not really being an adequate format with so many recordings available. I doubt she listened to many of them!

[Keraulophone]

His recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Gerald Moore on a mono LP was what got me into Lieder over 50 years ago.

Never bettered, IMV.
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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Shame that Ian Partridge didn't even get a mention, or the Pears/Britten (aquired taste though that might be) but I did like her reccomendations too. Another case maybe of BAL not really being an adequate format with so many recordings available. I doubt she listened to many of them!

Given Professor Tunbridge's publications include studies of historic recordings of Schumann lieder, I would be surprised if she didn't know many of them, although how many of them she listened to in the period leading up to the recording of Saturday's broadcast - and how many were chosen for her by the producer - is another matter.

I don't think that the Partridge recording of Dichterliebe is easily available new? (My experience with it is identical to keraulophone's - studied the work at "O"-level, needed a recording - the cheap CfP was issued in the same year.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

G(My experience with it is identical to keraulophone's - studied the work at "O"-level, needed a recording - the cheap CfP was issued in the same year.)

It's scary to think I could have taught either of you. I remember teaching it as a set work. I think the school had a DF-D recording.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting to note that when it was last done (only nine years ago in June 2010) ...

Just as an afterword, on a casual stroll down the Memory Land that is the BBC Genome, I discovered that Dichterliebe was the first work ever reviewed on a Radio 3 Building a Library - within half-an-hour of the station opening on 30th September, 1967, Charles Osborne was doing the honours.

Alas, no record (<ho-ho>) of which versions were then available, nor which he selected.

(The programme, which had already been broadcast for over a decade on the Third Programme, was broadcast from 8:00 - 9:00 am, and was followed by a complete broadcast of Mozart's La Clemenzo di Tito. Aaarh - them weret' days!)