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Record Review: Schumann's Dichterliebe on Building a Library with Laura Tunbridge and Andrew McGregor

Schumann's Dichterliebe on Building a Library with Laura Tunbridge and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Schumann's Dichterliebe on Building a Library with Laura Tunbridge and Andrew McGregor

Laura Tunbridge recommends a recording of Schumann's Dichterliebe with Andrew McGregor.

Andrew McGregor and Laura Tunbridge discuss the available recordings of Schumann's poignant song cycle Dichterliebe, plus Katy Hamilton on the latest Beethoven releases.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30am
Building a Library
Another chance to hear Laura Tunbridge discussing the available recordings of Schumann's poignant song-cycle 'Dichterliebe' and making a recommendation.

Dichterliebe, or 'A Poet's Love', is Schumann's best-known song cycle and comprises 16 songs taken from Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo of 1822-23.  Schumann's masterly setting of the poems was composed just 17 years later, in 1840.  Each poem is underpinned by the romantic idea that love leads to loss and even death.  The cycle begins with a gentle song set in the month of may when the poet tells the birds of his desires, through songs that display the many facets of love - fickleness of young love, betrayal, nightmares -and ends on the Rhine as the poet watches his coffin making its way to sea, carrying the heavy burden of all his loss and sorrows within.


10.45am
Katy Hamilton joins Andrew McGregor to discuss the latest new releases of Beethoven's music in this, the 250th anniversary year of his birth.  

11.15am
Disc of the Week
Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.

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