Physikalisches Spielbuch fr Die Jugend

For the first four years of their marriage, Robert and Clara Schumann kept a joint diary, a project which Robert described as a record of our wishes and our hopes, and the means whereby we may convey to one another any requests we may have to make, for which words may not suffice…

For the first four years of their marriage, Robert and Clara Schumann kept a joint diary, a project which Robert described as "a record of our wishes and our hopes, and the means whereby we may convey to one another any requests we may have to make, for which words may not suffice…". In the imaginative recital "Album für die Frau", Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton combine songs by both composers into something similar – the depiction of a relationship seen through the eyes of both parties.