![]() With cheerful frankness, he who longs for fulfillment starts out by admitting he has a tendency toward capriciousness and seduction. Is this about love, or only lust? Why does everything feel so unsatisfactory and painful in the end? Are the fisher maidens of this world too clueless to sense that the poet has some truly admirable qualities? Otherwise, why does it always end in defeat? “My heart is entirely like the sea: there are storms, there is ebb and flow, but in the depths, you can find many beautiful pearls.” Does this passage hold the key? We have chosen to order these songs in a meaningful succession that begins with the awakening of love and soon reaches its prompt demise. In the next group of settings of texts by Heinrich Heine, the story returns to its onset: now less rapturous, somewhat more aloof, and with even more bitterness at the end. ![]() The rapturous attitude is curbed: we hear of farewell, with a clear touch of bitterness. But clouds soon darken the horizon: the brook becomes a raging torrent of negative emotions. In Frühlingssehnsucht, “swelling desire” is colorfully illustrated by images of nature such as the silvery gurgling brook – an evocation of splendid vitality. The first group of songs on texts by Ludwig Rellstab starts out in a relatively carefree, rapturous tone: a mood of spring is in the air. SCHUBERT SCHWANENGESANG Notes by Andreas Bauer Kanabas ![]()
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