Dichterliebe

In response to my last post on Schubert's Lieder, a friend sent me the following link to Fritz Wunderlich's recording of Schumann's Dicterliebe. Dichterliebe (The Poet's Love) is a 16-part song cycle of poems from Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo set to music by Robert Schumann in the 1840s. Too good not to share; here it is:

I - VII

VIII - XII

(Link to original text and English translations)

Perhaps I'll eventually make it to the 21st century, two decades at a time.

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