Thomas Quasthoff
baritone
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Hélène Grimaud
piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
"Dichterliebe", Op. 48
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
"Nine Lieder and Songs", Op. 32
The joys and sorrows of love: In the art song of the Romantics, the two are often inseparably linked. Robert Schumann’s famous “Dichterliebe,” which he composed in 1840 to poetry from Heinrich Heine’s “Lyrical Intermezzo,” includes a song about this very idea: “A young man loves a maiden / Her heart yearns for another / And this other loves yet someone else / Who has become his lover.” The “hero” of Schumann’s cycle passes through all the emotional highs and lows so as, at the end, to symbolically bury his lost love. In contrast, Johannes Brahms’s “Nine Songs” (Op. 32) establish a fundamentally pessimistic mood from the start. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau described this set of songs as “a melancholy struggle with eros—a painfully restrained pathos—that requires intensity of expression no less than the full use of vocal resources.” Thomas Quasthoff and his celebrated accompanist can hardly disappoint in that department!
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