Du bist wie eine Blume

Of Du bist wie eine Blume, Eric Sams writes: "Heine's poem is perhaps the most immediately appealing ever written. The German text has a simple and direct artlessness which makes it all but impossible to appreciate as art...His poem is said to have been set to music more times than any other; and of all these settings Schumann's is surely supreme. His genius matches Heine's for intimacy and fervour..." And this 1929 recording finds Lehmann in her prime, vocally. The "orchestration" of the piano part is a distraction, but try to hear Lehmann instead.