Sings Schumann Dichterliebe

Schoitz (Artist), Schumann (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B000000WRN
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai

2. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Aus meinen Tränen spriessen

3. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Die rose, die Lilie

4. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Wenn ich in deine augen seh'

5. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Ich will meine Seele tauchen

6. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Im Rheim, im heil'gen Strome

7. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Ich grolle nicht

8. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Und wüssten's die Blumen

9. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen

10. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Hör ich das Liedchen klingen

11. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen

12. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen

13. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Ich hab'im Traum geweinet

14. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Allnächtlich im Traume

15. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Aus alten Märchen winkt es

16. Dichterliebe, song cycle for voice & piano, Op. 48: Die alten, bösen Lieder

17. Udfarten (Outward Bound), song for voice & piano, Op. 9/4

18. Jeg elsker Dig (I Love but Thee), song for voice & piano, Op. 5/3

19. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)

20. Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace?, for 4 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most beatifully sung Dichterliebe ever!, March 30, 2003

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ABH457 (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sings Schumann Dichterliebe (Audio CD)

When I was first loaned this music 20 years ago on an old LP, it held me spellbound and I still find it deeply moving. Do listen to the first poem of Dichterliebe (which means "Love Stories"). It is called "Im wunderschoenen Monat Mai" and continues: "...als alle Knospen sprungen.." It is the ultimate spring song of young love, and it has never been sung more tenderly and meaningfully than by Aksel Schiotz, one of the greatest but, incredibly, barely known tenors of the last century. Dichterliebe continues delighfully with more brief song-poems of love and heartbreak, from a world where there was time for those things. Gerald Moore's piano acompaniment is perfectly matched for Schiotz' tender style.
I have listened to others sing this cycle, and neither Fischer-Dieskau, Fritz Wunderlich, Hans Hotter, nor the more recent Ian Bostridge -- who has a beautiful voice, but who lays the meaning on too thickly in his too perfect German enunciation -- can touch Schiotz.
Schiotz was not only a great tenor, he was, I believe, honored as a Danish hero during WWII for his radio recitals of Danish art songs throughout the war, thus keeping up the national spirit of an occupied people. At least, this what I was told once by a now-99 year old Danish friend in the town of Aarhus.
Aksel Schiotz deserves to be better appreciated. Right now, on Amazon, he deserves to have his name written properly, where the word "Schitz" is used instead of Schiotz, no doubt (I hope) because the Scandinavian 'slash' that runs through the letter 'o' in the name Schiotz was probably not available among the typefaces on the Amazon PC. Aksel Schiotz deserves better. PLEASE!!