4: 1852-3. As the 1850s progressed,
Schumann's health began to deteriorate: his conducting became less decisive, he became obsessed with the spirit world and table-turning, and he began to have aural disturbances. Yet the music he wrote in these years betrays little of his mental turmoil. With Donald Macleod.
Overture: Hermann und Dorothea
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
Des Sangers Fluch (excerpts)
Soloists, Danish National Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt Dies Irae; Liber Scriptus ; Qui Mariam Absolvisti (Requiem in D flat)
Soloists, Choir of the Dusseldorf Friends of Music, Dusseldorf Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Bernhard Klee
Marchenerzahlungen Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cecil Aronowitz (viola),
Lamar Crowson (piano)