Robert Schumann / Hye-Young Cho (arr.) Wenn ich in deine Augen seh

Robert Schumann is still primarily known as a composer of piano and lieder and as a symphonic composer. In his later creative years, however, he saw the composition of choral music as an important focus of his work. Even today, it is important to discover a largely unknown Schumann, whose choral music masterfully combines popular appeal and artistic ambition. Carus offers Schumann's complete works for mixed choir and for female choir a cappella and with piano. They demonstrate his love of experimentation, his sensitivity in the selection and musical realisation of the texts and, last but not least, his independent choral style, which places particular emphasis on refined details in the composition. Personal details

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) is regarded as one of the most important German poets of the 19th century. He was born in Düsseldorf and is best known for his lyric poetry, which combines Romanticism with sharp social criticism. Many of his works deal with love, nature and freedom. Because of his political views, Heine lived in exile in Paris for many years.

He also occupies a prominent place in the history of music. His lyrical texts were set to music by numerous composers and had a particularly profound influence on the Romantic art song. Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Hugo Wolf, in particular, created musical works of enduring significance based on Heine’s poems. The poetic combination of linguistic simplicity, emotional depth and often ironic ambiguity offered composers a wide range of possibilities for musical interpretation. As a result, Heine’s poetry became a central part of the Romantic art-song repertoire and continues to influence vocal music to this day.

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Hye-Young Cho (born 1969) is considered one of the leading composers in South Korea. Her works have been performed in almost every choir and commissioned by most major professional choirs in South Korea. Notably, she was commissioned to write Te Deum for the opening concert of the World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) held in Seoul, Korea (2014).

Currently, she is the residence composer for Incheon City Chorale. She has also been the resident composer for the Ansan City Choir and National Chorus of Korea. She is the former president of the Korean Choral Composer Association (KCCA) and has taught at Hanyang University, Konkuk University, and Kangwon National University. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in music composition at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea.

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