Clara Schumann Songs - Rückert Lieder and "Jucunde" Lieder

Written By Tong Wang

Clara Schumann
Rückert Lieder, Op. 12 (excerpts)

  1. Er ist gekommen

  2. Liebst du um Schönheit

  3. Warum willst du and’re fragen

6 Lieder aus "Jucunde" von Hermann Rollet, Op. 23

  1. Was weinst du, Blümlein

  2. An einem lichten Morgen

  3. Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort

  4. Auf einem grünen Hügel

  5. Das ist ein Tag, der klingen mag

  6. O Lust, o Lust

Ariadne Lih, soprano
Tong Wang, piano

Tanna Hall
2019.11.25

From Friedrich Rückert's “Springtime of Love”
“If you love for beauty “
Clara Schumann

If you love for beauty, oh, do not love me!
Love the sun, she has golden hair!

If you love for youth, oh, do not love me!
Love the spring, it is young every year!

If you love for treasure, oh, do not love me!
Love the mermaid, she has many clear pearls!

But if you love for love, oh yes, do love me!
love me ever, and I'll love you evermore!


Tong Wang

Tong Wang is a Canadian artist leading innovative initiatives across areas of performance, research, and community engagement. Her projects explore the role of art in relation to identity, culture, and current social-political issues. As a soloist and chamber musician, Tong has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles across North America and Europe. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has written the libretto of a new opera, “Labyrinth of Tears”, funded by the Canada Council, FRQSC, and SSHRC, participated in the Napoule Arts Foundation Residency in France, and published an award-winning photo-essay in the literary magazine Carte Blanche. Her other projects include the creative performances “Song of Praise”, “Ghiblilane”, “Once Upon a Pumpkin”, and research on the aesthetic of “cuteness” in popular and classical music. Tong recently toured a recital on multiculturalism, “我们Us” in Lunenburg, Montreal, Basel, and presented the interactive concerts “We’re Not Really Strangers” and “My Neighbours Totoro and Claude!” at the Verbier Festival. In 2022, Tong launched the Windwood Music Festival in Airdrie, Alberta to engage with and support rural farming communities through classical chamber music. In 2023, Tong will be touring with Duo Perdendosi across eastern US & Canada, as well as with Duo Incarnadine in Turkey and China to premiere a new commission by Alice Ho, Four Impressions of China. Using diverse mediums, Tong aims to share the power of art to reach across time, languages, borders, and cultures to connect people and kindle a shared understanding.

https://tong-wang.com
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