IDAGIO | My Heart's in the Highlands: Burns | Hahn | Lehman | Schumann

Featuring

Glen Cunningham
Anna Tilbrook
Anonymous (Traditional)
Robert Schumann
Liza Lehmann
Stuart MacRae

Reynaldo Hahn

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Composition History

Robert Schumann composed his four-volume book of songs Myrthen, Op. 25, in 1840, a year of intense lieder activity and high romance, coinciding with his marriage to Clara Wieck.

Performer Biography

Tenor Glen Cunningham, who is from Inverness, Scotland, found a "Scottishness" thread tying the album together, including kinship with composer Stuart MacRae, also from Inverness.

Historical Context

Robert Burns's poetry, characteristic of Scottish verse, is infused with a yearning love of his homeland, drawing on the unstable years after the failed Jacobite revolutions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Robert Schumann, a German composer, was drawn to Robert Burns's poems for their "genius for crystallizing a simple situation into a moment of delight or sorrow," which he found perfect for lieder.

Composer Biography

Liza Lehmann, a half-English, half-German composer, and Reynaldo Hahn, a Venezuelan-born composer culturally educated in Paris, both wrote children's songs as an escape from the horrors of World War I.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in Haddington, East Lothian, and features a proudly Scottish recording label.

Album & Artwork

The album's title, "My Heart's in the Highlands," reflects a defining feature of the album: a rich blend of actual Scottishness and the places where the Scottish voice has traveled.