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LSO St Luke's Schumann + 1 Series

Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo Soprano)
Eugene Asti (piano)

The last in a series of concerts featuring Schumann song cycles, recorded recently at LSO St Luke's. Today Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform "Frauenliebe und -Leben", which celebrates a woman's marriage and motherhood, and closes with the sorrow of bereavement. The cycle foreshadowed the Schumann's own marriage, as Robert died young, leaving Clara to four decades of widowhood.

Also on the programme, Schumann's Mary Stuart Songs, written towards the end of his life, and songs by Mahler, the heir to Schumann and Brahms in the realm of German song.

Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42
Schumann: Abschied von Frankreich; An die K枚nigin Elisabeth; Gebet (Gedichte der K枚nigin Maria Stuart, Op 135)
Mahler: Urlicht; Ich atmet' einen linden Duft; Liebst du um Sch枚nheit; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Presented by Penny Gore.