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A Poet’s Love

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Cat No: BIS2704

Barcode: 7318599927046

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 8th May 2026

Contents

Artists

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Works

Lang, Josephine

Wenn zwei voneinander scheiden

Loewe, Carl

Gesammelte Lieder (54) for voice and piano, op.9 Vol.1
» no.1 Die Lotosblume

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Fichtenbaum und Palme
Lieder (6), op.1
» no.1 Schwanenlied 'Es fallt ein Stern herunter'

Mendelssohn, Felix

Gesange (6), op.34
» no.6 Reiselied

Schumann, Robert

Dichterliebe, op.48
Myrthen, op.25
» no.7 Die Lotosblume

Werner, Heloise

Knight's Dream

Artists

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

About

British mezzo-soprano and BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch present their take on Robert Schumann's famous song cycle Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), based on poems by early-19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine. The sixteen songs convey the birth of love, wonder, fragility in the face of love, emotions and nuances, wounds, sorrow, nostalgia, dreams, tears, betrayal, pain, consolation, death... The music expresses all the misfortunes that the poet had to face, as if a mirror image existed between the poet and Schumann.

This recording also features other songs based on texts by Heine, demonstrating the German poet's popularity with Austro-German composers of the early nineteenth century. Songs by Carl Loewe, Josephine Lang, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn complete this exploration of Heine's poetry. In addition to Schumann's cycle, the other highlight of this recital is the first recording of a work commissioned by Helen Charlston from composer (and singer) Héloïse Werner, Knight's Dream, also based on a text by Heine, and conceived as a companion piece for Dichterliebe. Imaginative and daring, this new work is both a tribute and a playful dialogue with Schumann and Heine, bringing the past and present together in a lyrical conversation.

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