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Song of the week: Si mes vers avaient des ailes (R. Hahn) - S. Graham, R. Vignoles
How to talk about art song when it's a type of music I don't particularly like or know? The only think I can say is what I feel when a song stricks me like a little piece of magic. This is a good example: mild and tender like a kiss, Si mes vers avaient des ailes by Reynaldo Hahn on a poem by Victor Hugo, sung by Susan Graham with Roger Vignoles at the piano.- Details
"For Dieter: the past and the future". These words were inscribed by Benjamin Britten in the score of "Songs and Proverbs of William Blake"; the two men, Britten and Fischer-Dieskau, recorded the song cycle and we can hear "Proverb II & The Chimney-Sweeper".- Details
"I like these songs more than all the rest, and you will come to like them as well". Schubert was right, we love his Winterreise. We can hear Martti Talvela and Ralf Gothóni performing song No. 7, Auf dem Flusse.- Details
Song of the week: Auf das Trinkglas eines verstorbenen Freundes (R. Schumann) - D. Fischer-Dieskau, H. Klust
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Song of the week: The singer (P. Warlock) - C. Maltman, J. Drake
"The Singer" is a song written by Peter Warlock in 1922, based upon a poem by Edward Shanks. Perhaps not his best work but a delightful song nevertheless, performed by Christopher Maltman and Julius Drake.
Series
The same poem, one more song
The Buch der Lieder and ten composers
The 10 saddest songs
The 10 happiest songs
Ten buggy songs
Wilhelm Meister's Songs
Lied goes pop
Abecedari Liederabend
The ESMUC Master's Degree in Lied visits us
