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Flower songs

A cycle of ten flower songs, “mixing memory and desire,” to celebrate the arrival of April. Bizet, Wagner, Parios, Chabrier, Puccini, Strauss, Britten, PiL, Schubert, Aznavour https://poetrypiano.wordpress.com/?s=flower+songs

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How Schubert listened to the brook’s lullaby

Franz Schubert’s lieder do not sound like poems set to music.  They sound like actualizations of musical settings.  It is as if the composer cast in notation the inner musicality of these pieces which, to his mind, were already written … Continue reading

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