Geraldine
Wolf – Anakreons Grab (What I love about this song)
I love … the poem’s brevity and form: the long and structured sentence which sets up the beauty of the location before asking the question, and then the simplicity of the answer how the 2 bar piano introduction, with its lack of movement and its falling 7th, sets up the peacefulness of the song but […]
Therese & Serenade (Song meets Song)
Here are two gentle, intimate Brahms songs where the singer addresses someone younger – Therese op. 86 no. 1 (text by Keller) and Serenade “Liebliches Kind” op. 70 no. 3 (text by Goethe) In Therese the young person’s eyes have obviously revealed some intense feelings, which read like a delightful and provocative question to the […]
Chabrier – Lied (What I love about this song)
I love… The skipping, prancing, merry introduction, and how just before the verse begins the surprise appoggiatura causes a sudden suggestive, eyebrow-raising hiatus That little 4 bar phrase with the low repeated notes in the voice – in the first verse it introduces the scary, magical element, in the 2nd verse it’s Berthe confidentially indicating […]