Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42 (Medium voice)

Description

"Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel!" Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schumann’s empathy with the highly romantic inflections of Adelbert von Chamisso‘s poetry may also have arisen from the circumstances that prompted this cycle, for it was written during one of the happiest periods of his life, just before his marriage to Clara Wieck. Ever since its initial publication Frauenliebe und Leben has been immensely popular with male and female singers alike. Now it appears for the first time in a Henle urtext edition equally well-suited for medium male or female voice (mezzo soprano or baritone).

• Seit ich ihn gesehen (Since I Saw Him)
• Er, der Herrlichste von allen (He, the Noblest of All)
• Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben (I Cannot Grasp or Believe It)
• Du Ring an meinem Finger (You Ring Upon My Finger)
• Helft mir, ihr Schwestern (Help Me, Sisters)
• Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an (Sweet Friend, You Gaze)
• An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust (At My Heart, At My Breast)
• Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan (Now You Have Caused Me Pain for the First Time)