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...
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".
