Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder

Werner Güra: Marlis Petersen, Soprano; Anke Vondung, Mezzo-soprano; Werner Güra, Tenor; Konrad Jarnot, Baritone; Camillo Radicke, Piano, with Christoph Berner, piano

The year 1849 was one of Schumann's most prolific. The inspiration for his opp.74 and 138 was an anthology of Spanish texts translated by Emanuel Geibel. These short love poems were ideal material for music in the tangy ‘Spanish' style tinged with the colours of central Europe. Considerably more intimate, the Minnespiel op.101 takes us from storybook Spain to German Romanticism.