Koen van Stade & Neal Peres da Costa - Schumann: Dichterliebe (2023)

This album is a bold reimagining of Robert Schumann's beloved song cycle, Dichterliebe, based on the artists' cutting-edge research into the earliest surviving recordings of singers and pianists - including musicians directly connected to Schumann. The musical result is jarring at first, and then increasingly compelling: a creative freedom and rhetorical flair bordering on wildness, which belies the years of careful study of historical source material that made such risk-taking possible.

Tracklist
01. Fugues et caprices: Fugue dixième (à 4 parties)
02.[untitled], Bibliothèque nationale de France: manuscrit Rés. 1186, fol. 4v-5r
03. Suite in C Major, Z. 666: I. Prélude
04. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V Scene 44: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman (Chaconne)
05. Suite in D Minor, Z. 668: I. Almand
06. Suite in D Minor, Z. 668: II. Corant
07. Suite in D Minor, Z. 668: III. Hornpipe
08.[verse], British Library: manuscript Add MS 31446, fol. 38v
09. Volontary for Double Organ in D Minor, Z. 719
10. Volontary III in A Minor
11. Pavan in A Minor, Z. 749
12. Sonata No. 5 in A Minor, Z. 794
13. Fantasia in six parts in A Minor No. 5
14.[untitled], Christ Church, Oxford: manuscript MS 1177, fol. 15v
15. Suite in G Minor, Z. 661: I. Prelude
16. Suite in G Minor, Z. 661: II. Almand
17. Suite in G Minor, Z. 661: III. Corant
18. Suite in G Minor, Z. 661: IV. Saraband
19. Passacaille d'Armide
20. Chaconne in G Minor, ZT. 680