“On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesRobert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle, Dichterlibe—A Poet’s Love—is, in a word, spellbinding. The rendering of the age-old theme of love and betrayal is personal and intimate, with barriers between singer and listener removed. It is Romanticism at its most exquisite. Mendelssohn, too, was captivated by Heine’s lyrical genius and wrote music to […]