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Article: Dichterliebe.(concert of German songs)(Review)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Dichterliebe and other songs, by Robert Schumann, sung by Ian Bostridge at Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California.
Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Hugo Wolf together form German art song's Holy Trinity. To the degree that the general population knows anything about the intimate art of lieder singing, it is almost exclusively through the works of these three composers. And within these composers's substantial oeuvres, three song cycles have achieved conspicuous popularity. They are, of course, Die Schone Mullerin and Die Winterreise by Schubert and Schumann's Dichterliebe. Their fame rests largely on the broad canvases the composers employed and also on the ...