“Ever since I saw him, I think I’m blind,” sings Fatma Said. Fragile, dreamy, touching. Malcolm Martineau on the piano is her gentle, attentive companion, as if the two were slowly walking together. One imagines Clara Wieck, whom her father Friedrich bred to become a celebrated concert pianist. And now she only has him in her head, Robert Schumann, whom her father definitely didn’t plan for her. Secretly engaged, the couple obtained the marriage before the Leipzig Court of Appeal, wedding in 1840. Robert Schumann would later call it “my most fertile year,” and most of his songs were written during this time of exhilaration. Also the cycle “Women’s Love and Life”, from which this longing song is taken. And with which the tone is set for a concert evening in Munich’s Prinzregententheater.
Song recital with Fatma Said, Sabine Meyer and Malcolm Martineau – Munich
