C. Schumann & Hensel: O How Enchanting / Pahn, Schornsheim

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Haenssler Classic
Release Date
September 2, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann
    • PERFORMER
      Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 02, 2022
    • UPC
      881488200263
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HC20026
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ave Maria

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    2. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 3. Liebeszauber

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    3. Was will die einsame Träne

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    4. Zauberkreis

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    5. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 6. Die stille Lotosblume

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    6. 12 Gesänge, Op. 8: No. 3. Italien

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    7. Loreley

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    8. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 3. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Christine Schornsheim

    9. O weh des Scheidens

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    10. 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1. Schwanenlied

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    11. 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 2. Wanderlied

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    12. Lebewohl

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    13. Am Strande

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    14. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 1. Andante

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Christine Schornsheim

    15. Frühlingslied

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    16. 3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 2. Liebst du um Schönheit

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    17. Die furchtsame Träne

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    18. O wie beseligend

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    19. Nacht III

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    20. Soirées musicales, Op. 6: II. Notturno

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Christine Schornsheim

    21. 3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 1. Er ist gekommen

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    22. 6 Lieder, Op. 13: No. 5. Ich hab' in deinem Auge

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    23. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    24. Lied der Fee

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    25. Gebet in der Christnacht

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim

    26. Die gute Nacht

      Composer: Clara Schumann

      Performer: Bettina Pahn, Christine Schornsheim


“Oh, do it Clara darling!” said Robert Schumann to his bride Clara, strongly encouraging her to pursue composing. Although the pianist had always composed, when she married in 1840 – without being asked to – she was immediately willing to dispense with this part of her musical output: “A woman does not have to desire to compose – so far not one has been able to do so; should that be what I am destined to do?” Clara is caught up in a crisis and feels resigned: “But I cannot compose…I lack all talent for it.” Only after the wedding did Clara return to composing. As long as her father or husband encouraged her to do so, in her consummate adaptability she did so with joy. But after Robert’s death in 1856, Clara stopped composing entirely.

It does not appear that the Mendelssohns were able to enjoy Heine’s kinder side. Although Heine was sometimes a visitor at their home in Berlin, somehow friendly relations did not develop. However, the poet Heine held Fanny in high regard. She had already set his poems “Was will die einsame Träne” (Why this solitary tear) and “Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen” (On a radiant summer morning) to music in 1827/28. Her song setting of Heine’s “Schwanenlied” (Song of the swan) – was her first published work, but this only happened in 1846. At first Fanny chose to set poems by her bridegroom Wilhelm to music, of which she had already composed “Lebewohl” (Farewell) the same year they met and before the wedded couple were separated for a long period. Upon getting married she, too, began a busy and fruitful artistic collaboration that involved the daily morning ritual of Wilhelm leaving poems on the piano for her to set to music.