This is the first in a series on the music of sleep. Sleep as rest, repose, comfort and relief - and too as that symbol of our last repose on earth, in death.
Let’s start with what comforts. The lullaby. Is there any other word in English more comforting that ‘lullaby’? That sense of being surrounded by love and sent, bye and bye, to sleep……. So even if we can’t remember the lullabies that were sung to us, we respond to them now as if we do - in that moment of heart’s ease that overcomes us as we listen.
Here’s one of the loveliest. It was originally thought to have been written by Mozart. But later was found to have been one of his pupil’s, Bernhard Flies - ‘Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein’. Here it is sung, in a version unmatched, by Rita Streich.
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