Carp, pike, cod, eels, sturgeon, crabs, turtles... All together thanks to Mahler. With Gerald Finley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
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.
"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".
"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.
In memoriam
