Ihr Lieder! Ihr meine guten Lieder! A guide to musical settings for one or two voices of the poetry of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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Heine settings performed in concerts

1997-1998 sabbatical concerts
1998-2005
2005-2006 sabbatical concerts
2006-

 

At the outset of this project, during my sabbatical in 1997-98, I presented a series of three concerts of music based on Heine's poetry, much of it found in the course of my research.

• "Happy Birthday, Heine!"
  • on December 14, 1997 at the Unitarian Meetinghouse in Amherst, MA., celebrating Heine's 200th birthday with early, pre-1840 Heine settings by Mendelssohn, Hensel, Heller, Meyerbeer, Schubert, Lang and Curschmann.
  • with Monica Jakuc, piano
  • program
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• "Schumann Heine-Lieder"
  • on January 15, 1998 at the Unitarian Meetinghouse in Northampton, MA, featuring Heine settings from Schumann's "song year" of 1840, including the cycles Liederkreis, op. 24, Dichterliebe, op. 48, and four dramatic ballads.
  • with Gregory Hayes, piano
  • program
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• "Songs of Love and the Sea"
  • on March 15, 1998 at Whittemore Theatre, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, a concert of vocal chamber music by Lachner, Hoven, Foote, Mendelssohn, Heller, Bridge, d'Hardelot, Degele and Shaw.
  • Susan Klein, piano; Jean Jeffries, horn; Kate Judd, soprano; Peggy Spencer, violin; Laurie Rabut Castellano, violin; Catherine Bowers, viola; Zon Eastes, cello
  • program
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  • bios
    

Heine settings I sang, or asked others to sing, in concerts between 1998 and 2005, some several times (in alphabetical order by composer):

Hanss Eisler (1898-1962): Verfehlte Liebe (Mistaken love) (1956)

Jaroslaw de Zielinski (1847-1922): Du bist wie eine Blume (Thou art like a flower)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): The Pine-Tree (Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam)

Werner Josten (1885-1963): The Three Holy Kings

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909): Spi w blaskach nocy (Asleep in the splendors of the night) op. 3, no. 4

Franz Lachner (1803-1890):

Die Seejungfern (The Mermaid) (1833)
Neuer Frühling (New Spring) (1831)

Josephine Lang (1815-1880): Traumbild (Dream picture) op. 28, no. 1 (1838)

Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850-1926): Three songs from Lieder, op. 27

Die du bist so schön und rein (You who are so pure and rare)
Der Zimmermann (The Carpenter)
Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht! (Receive me, O primeval night!)

Leonard Lehrman (1949- ): An der Grenze (At the border) from Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland (1984)

Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798-1859): Erfüllte Ahnung (Foreboding fulfilled) op. 117, no. 3

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Six songs from Schwanengesang (Swan-song) (1828) in Heine's published order:

Das Fischermädchen (The fisher-maiden)
Am Meer (On the sea)
Die Stadt (The town)
Der Doppelgänger (The double)
Ihr Bild (Her portrait)
Der Atlas (Atlas)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856):

Heine-Liederkreis, op.24
Selections from Dichterliebe, op. 48

Oscar G.T. Sonneck (1873-1928): Es ragt ins Meer der Runenstein (The runic rock juts into the sea) (1900)

Immediately prior to and during my sabbatical in 2005-2006 I presented another series of six concerts of music based on Heine's poetry.

• "A Program of Songs on the Poetry of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)"
  • on July 28, 2005 at the Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst, MA
  • with Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
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• "A Program of Songs on the Poetry of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)"
  • on October 30, 2005 at the Applewood at Amherst, 1 Spencer Drive, Amherst MA.
  • with Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
  • program
    
    
• "Songs of Love and the Sea : settings of Die Nordsee, Erster Zyklus by Heinrich Heine"
  • on December 13, 2005 at South Congregational Church, Amherst MA
  • Monica Jakuc, Gretchen Saathoff, Susan Dedell, piano; Nordsee String Quartet
  • program (Word document on my personal website http://people.umass.edu/shea/)
  • http://scholarworks.umass.edu/heine_concert_related/
    
    
• “Lyrical Intermezzo I” begins a journey of musical exploration with Peter and friends through the first half of Heine’s most popular collection of poems. 33 songs in a multitude of languages and musical styles, including world and Valley premieres. In observance of the 150th anniversary of the poet's death in 1856.
  • on Saturday, February 18, 2006, 8 pm. at The National Yiddish Book Center, on the campus of Hampshire College, Rt. 116, Amherst MA
  • Gregory Hayes, Elise Jackendoff, Nancy Rice, piano; Sudie Marcuse, soprano; Dorie Goldman, mezzo-soprano; David Schneider, clarinet
  • program (Word document on my personal website http://people.umass.edu/shea/)
  • http://scholarworks.umass.edu/heine_concert_related/

Heine settings I have sung in concerts since my 2005-2006 sabbatical (in alphabetical order by composer):

Mary Carmichael (1851-1935): In a drear and northern country (Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968):  Die drei Könige

Kaeza Fearn:

Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam (commissioned for Eastern Native Tree Society annual meeting concert, October 20, 2007)
Seegespenst

Clara Schumann (1819-1896):

Volkslied
Ich stand in dunklen Träumen, op. 13, no. 1

Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Heine-Liederkreis, op.24

 

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