March 25 (four days after listening to a song from his Chansons de Bilitis) marked 100 years since the death of Claude Debussy, so the musical world is paying homage to him this year. In fact, he's not a composer that visits us often; we've only heard three songs so far and it seems that we're going from anniversary to anniversary, because the first one was Beau soir, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, in August 2012. Today we're listening to a fourth song, a mélodie that is not considered among the best (well, not every peace can be a masterpiece) and it's not well-known. I like it, and I especially like the recording [...]

My dearest all, I'm still on holiday, but I'm thinking of you and I've been looking for the usual musical postcard to send you. I must admit I was getting on my nerves because I couldn't find any (and I was sure there were plenty) when I came across a Lied that I jotted down on my notebook long time ago. The pianist was Leonard Bernstein and we never had listened to him playing the music of another composer [...]

My dearest all, I'm on holiday, so this week and the next one I'm posting just a few lines. The letter W will be the shortest one of Liederabend's alphabet (in fact, W is the shortest letter in Catalan dicctionary, too, it has just one page), but changing the word or the date wasn't an option (no, not going on holiday wasn't an option either).

On January 19, 2006, the spacecraft New Horizons began its interplanetary travel. A few hours later it surpassed the Moon, three months later, Mars and on February 2007 it reached Jupiter, its first important study point. After making tests and collecting data, it follows its journey to its primary mission, Pluto. It reached that planet on July 2015 after surpassing Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The New Horizons is now 41.5 AU far from the Earth [...]

"The Eichendorff cycle is certainly my most romantic and there is much of you in it." Robert Schumann wrote that to his fiancée Clara Wieck's in May 1840, just after writing in twenty days what would be published as Liederkreis, op. 39 (literally, "Circle of songs"). He had just begun to write Lieder and he would write much more that year 1840, but this cycle is still considered the most romantic by Schumann, even the reference when talking about a romantic song cycle.