Album für die Frau - Scenes from the Schumanns' Lieder / Sampson, Middleton

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BIS
Release Date
April 9, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUMANN, C. SCHUMANN, R.
    • PERFORMER
      Sampson, Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 09, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599924731
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2473
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young), Op. 68, Part II: Für Erwachsenere: No. 21. —

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Joseph Middleton

    2. 3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 2. Liebst du um Schönheit

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    3. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 1. Seit ich ihn gesehen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    4. 6 Lieder aus Jucunde, Op. 23: No. 6. O Lust, o Lust

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    5. Lieder und Gesänge II, Op. 51: No. 2. Volksliedchen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    6. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 3. Liebeszauber

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    7. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    8. 6 Lieder aus Jucunde, Op. 23: No. 2. An einem lichten Morgen

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    9. 3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 3. Warum willst du and're fragen

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    10. Lieder und Gesänge II, Op. 51: No. 5. Liebeslied

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    11. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 3. Ich kann's nicht fassen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    12. 5 Lieder, Op. 40: No. 5. Verratene Liebe

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    13. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 6. Die stille Lotosblume

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    14. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 4. Du Ring an meinem Finger

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    15. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 4. Der Mond kommt still gegangen

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    16. No. 11. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling I

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    17. No. 12. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling II

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    18. Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood), Op. 15: No. 5. Glückes genug (Happy Enough)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Joseph Middleton

    19. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    20. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 7. Die Lotosblume

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    21. 12 Gedichte, Op. 35: No. 1. Lust der Sturmnacht

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    22. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 6. Süßer Freund, du blickest

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    23. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 14. Hochländisches Wiegenlied

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    24. Lieder-Album fur die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 12. Der Sandmann

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    25. Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood), Op. 15: No. 12. Kind im Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Joseph Middleton

    26. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    27. Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood), Op. 15: No. 9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the Hobby-horse)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Joseph Middleton

    28. 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: No. 2. Dein Angesicht

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    29. 4 Gesänge, Op. 142: No. 3. Mädchen-Schwermut

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    30. Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42: No. 8. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    31. 6 Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90: No. 7. Requiem

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    32. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young), Op. 68, Part II: Für Erwachsenere: No. 38. Winterszeit I

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Joseph Middleton


For the first four years of their marriage, Robert and Clara Schumann kept a joint diary, a project which Robert described as ‘a record of our wishes and our hopes, and the means whereby we may convey to one another any requests we may have to make, for which words may not suffice...’ In the imaginative recital Album für die Frau, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton combine songs by both composers into something similar – the depiction of a relationship seen through the eyes of both parties. Using the eight songs from Robert’s song cycle Frauenliebe und –leben to poems by Adalbert von Chamisso as the framework, they add songs as well as some piano solos in order to create a fuller and more complex picture. The result seems to suggest that the experiences of our ‘Frau’ are richer than Chamisso and Robert Schumann imagined: while love, marriage and motherhood dominated much of Clara Schumann’s life, Robert’s death in 1856 signaled the start of a four-decade widowhood during which she resumed her stellar career as a pianist. As a team, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have released a number of acclaimed discs, including ‘Fleurs’, featuring flower-themed songs by composers from Purcell to Richard Strauss and Britten, ‘A Verlaine Songbook’, exploring settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine, and ‘A Soprano’s Schubertiade’, a Schubert anthology.

REVIEW:

Amid formidable recorded competition, Sampson is close to the top of the Frauenliebe pantheon. It is high time Joseph Middleton made an album of solo Schumann piano music.

– Gramophone