EPISODE · Oct 31, 2022 · 48 MIN
Schumann's Myrthen
from Record Review Podcast · host BBC Radio 3
Elin Manahan-Thomas's chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's song-cycle Myrthen.The 26 songs that Schumann published under the title Myrthen (Myrtles) were all composed in 1840, the year in which great songs flowed out of him in a great flood of inspiration. He gave a beautifully bound edition of the Myrthen songs to his bride Clara on the eve of their wedding that year. This cycle contains some of Schumann's most popular songs such as Der Nussbaum and Die Lotosblume. And some of the greatest Lieder singers from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to Christian Gerhaher have recorded their interpretations of many of these great songs.
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Schumann's Myrthen
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