My Heart and I – Songs by Clara Schumann & Nancy Dalberg

Clara Schumann 1. Walzer (Johann Peter Lyser) 2. Am Strande (Gerhard based on Burns) 3. Mein Stern (Friederike Serre) 4. Loreley (Heinrich Heine) 5. Beim Abschied (Friederike Serre) Nancy Dalberg 6. Folkevise (Martyin Andersen-Nexø) 7. Marianne Sinclairs sang  (Selma Lagerlöf) 8. Angelusklokker (Johs. Jørgensen) 9. Der sidder en munk i bure (Mads Nielsen) 10. My heart and I (Ellen Arendrup) 11. Svanerne (Hans Hartvig Seedorf Pedersen) 12. Jeg ser for mit øje – Tannhäusersang nr. 5 (Holger Drachmann) 13. Luk dine øjne (Ludvig Holstein) 14. Det suser mig for øret (Thor Lange) 15. Min elskede danser i sale (Lauritz Christian Nielsen) 16. Aprilvise (Mads Nielsen) 17. Und sommer! (Mads Nielsen) 18. Sensommer (ukendt) 19. Da stiger en længsel (ukendt) 20. Zigeunersang (Thor Lange) 21. Skämtrim (Anna Maria Lenngren) Booklet notes by Lisbeth Ahlgren and Jens Christian Uldall Nancy Dalberg © Nancy Dalberg’s (1881 – 1949) songs were written in the period from 1909 to the beginning of the 1930s, and through her choice of lyrics she tells a lot about herself and her life. She grew up in a prosperous entrepreneurial environment and early on she developed skills as a pianist. In 1901 she married First Lieutenant Erik Dalberg, who also had a significant artistic vein; and a few songs were thus written together. Due to an arm disease, however, she had to give up becoming a concert pianist, and with Johan Svendsen and especially Carl Nielsen as teachers, she acquired from 1909 on the compositional skills that, in addition to the songs and other smaller works, led to her string quartets and orchestral works; thus three of her songs are also available in an orchestral version. With the very personal choice of 47 mainly Danish poems, her songs take up a considerable amount of space, and she provoked her contemporaries with a sometimes quite rich piano accompaniment, whereby the soloist and pianist became more equal in the performance. The lyrics range widely from the cheerful to several more serious lyrics that revolve around the family and marital dreams that remained unfulfilled due to her lifelong health challenges and her husband’s increasing mental illness. Of the present selection, 9 songs have not previously been recorded RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2025 CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 996 EAN: 5709499996003 Download BOOKLET (PDF)   Related