One Less Performance of 'Dichterliebe' Orpheus Instituut
A musician approaching Dichterliebe op. 48 by Robert Schumann is confronted with a sort of Janus. One of its faces looks towards its past, namely, the “data” that can be inferred through or around the score (its compositional complexity and articulateness, its link with Schumann's biographical details, its elaborate relation to Heine’s poetry). But the other face is oriented towards its unpredictable futures, presenting us with elements of ...