Schubert's Erlkonig, and Schumann's Ich grolle nicht from his Dichterliebe cycle are among the best known of Lieder. But what about Louis Spohr 's
Erlkonig and Charles Ives 's Ichgrolle nicht? In the first of two programmes,
Richard Wigmore presents eight German poems, each in one familiar and one unfamiliar setting. Producer Peter Tanner
