Robert Schumann: 3 Gesänge (1840), Op. 31 with score

0:00 Die Löwenbraut (The Lion's Bride)
7:33 Die Kartenlegerin (The Fortune Teller)
10:20 Die rote Hanne (The Red Hannah)
Performers (No. 1 and 2): Anne Sofie von Otter (voice), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Performers (No. 3): Christian Gerhaher (voice), Gerold Huber (piano)
Notes stolen from Graham Johnson:
With the volume of Chamisso’s Gedichte still open on his desk, Schumann writes three substantial settings which show different sides of his literary sympathies. The lugubrious and menacing ballad Die Löwenbraut is somewhat autobiographical: Friedrich Wieck is clearly cast as the king of beasts, once noble, now demented, who refuses to let his beloved girl marry the man of her choice. Die Kartenlegerin, a translation of a French poem by Béranger, is a study of artful and impetuous femininity. The song seems invented on the spot with the turn of each card dictating the music’s direction. Like Schubert, Schumann lavishes on songs such as these aspects of drama and insight that mysteriously fail him when it comes to stage works. Die rote Hanne is also from a French model, and it does a great deal to show us both poet’s and composer’s quasi-socialist credentials - not the greatest of the Schumann songs perhaps, but composed in an earnestly worthy cause.
Texts by Adelbert von Chamisso. English translations from Oxford Lieder: oxfordsong.org...

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