We welcome again our dear readers from the blog La brújula del canto. A month ago we launched a collaboration with its author, Isabel Villagar, a mini-series of posts about world-famous Lieder. So famous that we might not know they're Lieder. In our first post, we listened to Brahms’ best known work, his lullaby, and now we're listening to Hadydn’s best known work, this one:
A was for amor, it couldn't be otherwise, how many songs on Liederabend don't speak of love? B was, naturally, for baritone (and baritonophilia. C is for contemporary as an answer to a common question: Do people still write Art Songs? And my answer is: sure they do! Not as frequently as in the nineteenth century, of course, but people still write songs. Today, we're listening to a beautiful one, a love song sung by a baritone. Some things never change.