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Vier Duette, Op 34
First line:
Die Liebe ist ein Rosenstrauch
composer
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
2-20 July 1840

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

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Cover of 'Schumann: The Complete Songs' (CDS44441/50)
Schumann: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano)
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Schumann: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7 – Dorothea Röschmann & Ian Bostridge
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Brahms & Schumann: Voices of the Night
The Songmakers' Almanac
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No 1: Liebesgarten  Die Liebe ist ein Rosenstrauch
author of text
Robert Reinick (1805-1852)

Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 1 on CDJ33107 [3'49] Archive Service Only
Track 21 on CDS44441/50 CD3 [3'49] 10CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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No 2: Liebhabers Ständchen  Wachst du noch, Liebchen? Gruss und Kuss!
author of text
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
translator of text
Wilhelm Gerhard (1780-1858)

Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 2 on CDJ33107 [2'18] Archive Service Only
Track 22 on CDS44441/50 CD3 [2'18] 10CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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No 3: Unterm Fenster  Wer ist vor meiner Kammertür?
author of text
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
translator of text
Wilhelm Gerhard (1780-1858)

The Songmakers' Almanac, Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 20 on CDA66053 [1'21] Archive Service Only
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 3 on CDJ33107 [1'30] Archive Service Only
Track 23 on CDS44441/50 CD3 [1'30] 10CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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No 4: Familien-Gemälde  Grossvater und Grossmutter
author of text
Anastasius Grün (1806-1876)
author of text
Anton Alexander, Graf von Auersperg (1806-1876)

Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 4 on CDJ33107 [4'10] Archive Service Only
Track 24 on CDS44441/50 CD3 [4'10] 10CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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Vier Duette, Op 34
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Duets for soprano and mezzo seem to have been Mendelssohn’s preferred combination, but in those passionately impatient months of 1840 Schumann was interested in the blending of male and female voices – and, more specifically, soprano and tenor. It was not until the two ‘Spanish’ song cycles (recorded in Volume 6) that he wrote for other vocal combinations, including soprano and mezzo and tenor and baritone. The actual date of the composition of this music is not clear; there is evidence of a private performance of these pieces in Leipzig in December 1840. The choice of texts places three items of the opus as being companion pieces of other songs from 1840. The Reinick setting suggests a duet off-cut from the Op 36 cycle Sechs Gedichte aus dem Liederbuch eines Malers – ‘Six Poems from the Songbook of a Painter’. The two Burns duets, serenades of love-locked-out in rural eighteenth-century Scotland, are clearly related to the remarkable sequence of Burns lieder in Myrten. Only the duet with which the set ends is a wild card from the point of view of the literary sources: Familien-Gemälde is Schumann’s only setting of the poet Anastasius Grün.

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Details for CDJ33107 track 1
Liebesgarten
Artists
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
ISRC
GB-AJY-02-10701
Duration
3'49
Recording date
12 November 2001
Recording venue
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Mark Brown
Recording engineer
Julian Millard
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  1. Schumann: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7 – Dorothea Röschmann & Ian Bostridge (CDJ33107)
    Disc 1 Track 1
    Release date: October 2002
    Deletion date: January 2011
    Archive Service Only
  2. Schumann: The Complete Songs (CDS44441/50)
    Disc 3 Track 21
    Release date: September 2010
    10CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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