Song of the week: Erinnerung (G. Mahler) - B. Fassbaender, I. Gage
From time to time, I make some comments about those annotations that we find in scores, if I think they might be useful to highlight a detail or a performing. Sometimes you’ve asked me about these annotations; this week's song has just reminded me of this, so this post is, very briefly, about this matter. If you already know about it you can go straight to listen to Erinnerung, an early song by Gustav Mahler; he wrote it around 1880, from a poem by Richard Leander, pseudonym of the prestigious surgeon Richard von Volkmann (I'm not sure I want to know how surgery was performed in the 19th century). Alternatively, you can also keep on reading and to correct, complete, enlighten... whatever it takes. I would be very grateful.
Last year we joined the 
As a young singer at the age of 23, I had the opportunity to take my first master class with the famous Hans Hotter. The theme of the course was: “Schubert, Wolf and Strauss”. I prepared six songs by each composer and went to Austria where the course took place. I was full of anticipation for the masterclass. In my bag I had, among others, my favorite Schubert songs Ganymed and Prometheus, some Goethe -Lieder by Wolf and some Strauss “classics” such as Die Nacht, Traum durch die Dämmerung and of course Zueignung, probably the most famous song by Richard Strauss.
- “Know’st thou the land?” 
