Enough about entrepreneurship; I feel far more at home with German Lieder.
Tanya and I introduced our German conversation group to some recordings of songs by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert this morning, sung by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicolai Gedda and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. We played recordings of Das Veilchen (full of pathos), Der Floh (funny), Ich Liebe Dich (tenderly romantic) and Erlkönig (spine-chillingly dramatic—click here), three of which were settings of poems by Goethe. Our friend Melita, who has just turned 80, is a good enough accompanist to be able to sight-read the accompaniment to Schubert's setting of Müller's Der Lindenbaum as well, to which which eight of us sang along (before hearing Fischer-Dieskau's rather better performance, with Gerald Moore accompanying).
Then I came home and took some photographs of spring flowers.
P.S. For a comic recital of Erlkönig, click here!
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