PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Stephen Rodgers is Professor of Music Theory and Musicianship at the University of Oregon. He writes about the relationship between music and poetry, focusing especially on the songs of nineteenth-century composers such as Franz Schubert, Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Clara Schumann. He is also active as a tenor and has performed several lecture-recitals throughout the United States.
A superb collection of essays from some of the world's leading experts on song. Fanny Hensel's Lieder finally receive the first-class scholarship they so richly deserve. * Matt BaileyShea, University of Rochester * A celebration of Fanny Hensel's contribution to early nineteenth-century Lieder has come nearly two centuries too late for her, but none too soon for us. This marvelous collection breaks through to the richness and astonishing originality of Hensel's songs, many of which still await publication. Songs of the forest, of the evening, of travel, of love both lived and lost express the breadth of Hensel's poetic range. Her preternatural capacity for capturing words in music, her uncommon tonal adventures, her unusual modes of closure-all these attributes emerge within the context of superb textual, historical, and musical analyses. The Songs of Fanny Hensel welcomes this composer into the classroom and the concert hall, and it secures her rightful place at the heart of the great Romantic Lieder tradition. * Janet Schmalfeldt, Professor Emeritus of Music, Tufts University *
