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Stephen Johnson is joined at Manchester Grammar School by the Swedish baritone, Hakan Vramsmo and pianist, David Quigley for an exploration of Schumann's intensely Romantic song-cycle, Dichterliebe. Composed in 1840, 'The Poet's Love' is arguably Schumann's best-known song-cycle. The texts for the 16 songs are taken from Heinrich Heine's 'Lyrisches Intermezzo', written between 1822 and 1823. The very natural, almost hyper-sensitive poetical affections of the poems are beautifully mirrored in Schumann's settings with their miniaturist chromaticism and suspensions. The poet's love is a hothouse of nuanced responses to the delicate language of flowers, dreams and fairy-tales.