Classical Music | Contralto

Recorded on 12/31/1969, uploaded on 04/05/2015

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

... The next song finds the woman nursing her newborn baby, in whom she has found a new, even greater happiness and love (“Hab überschwenglich mich geschätzt / bin überglücklich aber jetzt”). She muses on her love and pity’s those who know not her joy (“O, wie bedaur' ich doch den Mann / der Mutterglück nicht fühlen kann”). A lively accompaniment of broken chords in compound meter accompanies the joyful D major vocal melody. At the seventh couplet (“Du lieber, lieber Engel, du…”), Schumann replaces the arpeggios with staccato, block chords. Yet, to ensure that the joyful energy of the piece is not lost, he also gives the indication “Noch schneller” (“faster still”).     Joseph DuBose

recorded in 1950

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