Hans Hotter. I listened to him live for the first time at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1962. He sang the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's Don Carlo and the three Wotan of the Wagner's Ring along with Birgit Nilsson and Gré Brouwenstijn (that was the level of the Teatro Colón back then).

At seventeen, I already knew him because of his mythical Dutchman, some arias and a little of the Wotan, from Die Walküre, that he had sung with Martha Mödl two years earlier also in Buenos Aires.

 

Epheu is the third of the four songs that make up Mädchenblumen, Op.22, cycle that was composed by the german Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Mädchenblumen dates from 1886 and is based on the texts of Felix Dahn (1834-1912), who was a German poet, historian and jurist.

 (Post by Michel Reynoso, student of the Master's Degree in Lied - ESMUC)

 

This is the music of a ruined castle in a timeless forest. The Lied is dominated by the image of the statue of the old knight who, between the ruins of the castle, thoughtful observes the waters of the Rhine from his cell.

(Post by Miquel Carbonell, student of the Master's Degree in Lied - ESMUC)

 

Auf dem wasser zu singen (singing in the water) is a wonderful lied by Schubert that was published in 1823. The poem was written by Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg in 1782, dedicated to his wife Agnes since at that time they were newlyweds.

 

 

In the spring of 1851, Robert Schumann wrote a series of seven songs based on poems by a young writer: Elisabeth Kulmann. A cycle in which we discover some scenes and experiences of the young poet through the prism of the German composer.

(Post by Alba Quinquillà, student of the Master's Degree in Lied - ESMUC)