Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Romantic songs by Clara and Robert Schumann

Romantic songs by Clara and Robert Schumann

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Baritone James Newby and pianist James Baillieu in recital at St George's Bristol.

Baritone James Newby and pianist James Baillieu perform Clara Schumann's Op 13 songs and Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, Op 48, at St George's Bristol.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces the third concert in a series celebrating Radio 3's New Generation Artists.  Baritone James Newby and pianist James Baillieu perform a programme that explores love as expressed in 19th-century romantic poetry. Many of Clara Schumann's deeply touching songs were written as presents for her husband Robert. The six songs in her Op 13 collection are paired here with Robert Schumann's masterly song cycle "Dichterliebe", settings of texts by Heinrich Heine that tell the story of a young man's rejection in love. Schumann produced the sixteen songs in a mere ten days during 1840, the year in which the young couple would finally overcome Clara's family's opposition by gaining a court ruling allowing them to marry. 
James Newby was a Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2018 to 2021. 

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas 

CLARA SCHUMANN 
Sechs lieder, Op 13 

ROBERT SCHUMANN 
Dichterliebe Op 48 

James Newby, baritone
James Baillieu, piano

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