The roman­tic song cycle Frauenliebe und ‑leben fea­tures the tes­ti­mo­ny of an ecsta­t­i­cal­ly enam­oured lady – as artic­u­lat­ed by Robert Schumann. A male view on female affec­tion: empa­thy or pro­jec­tion? Wiebke Lehmkuhl and Ulrike Payer jux­ta­pose Schumann’s songs with the sounds of his eter­nal beloved, Clara Wieck, while Fanny Mendelssohn musi­cal­ly retorts to her broth­er Felix.