Eduard Toldrà was probably the first catalan composer of art song. We can hear I el seu esguard (And the look at my eyes) a song from his cycle La rosa als llavis performed by Marta Mathéu and the OBC conducted by Salvador Mas.
One of the most moving songs from Brahms, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, performed by Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau.
Liebestraum, the well-known solo piano piece from Liszt, is also a passionate song that we can hear performed by Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen.
It is the time for the linden flowers. Der Lindenbaum, from Schubert's Winterreise, with Christian Gerhaher and Thomas Quasthoff, and the less known Der Lindenbaum written by Conradin Kreutzer, performed by Mark Padmore.
Anne Schwanewilms and Manuel Lange performed this beautiful Strauss' song, Wiegenlied, in 2005 in Barcelona. Many things have changed since then...
