Schubert - Wanderers Nachtlied
Nov 21st, 2008 by oldfogey
I posted earlier Schumann’s lovely setting of this shortest of Goethe’s poems. Here, written a quarter of a century earlier, is Schubert’s. Schumann finds a poignant, personal sense of loss, as if in death, in this yearning for rest at the day’s end. Schubert’s understanding is universal, less personal. He invokes the peace we all can find, as the day, and life, closes, in nature and in God.
‘Peace lies over all the hills; in the treetops there is barely a stir. Birds are hushed in the wood; wait just a little while, soon you too will be at rest.’
The singer is Karl Erb, the greatest of all interpreters of Schubert’s songs.
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