Geraldine Consoli wrote:
> I am hoping for a few suggestions of songs I could include in a short > recital that will be combined with some solo piano and one or two poetry > readings. This is to be held at our village school in October and as it > is a rural parish on the edge of the Fens in Cambridgeshire I thought a > sort of "cow pat" theme might be suitable. We are also situated next to > the Great Ouse river and it would be lovely to select music that could > tie in with our locality I think.
Since you're next to a river, perhaps Schubert's song "Die Forelle" (The Trout) would be nice. The tune should be familiar (as it's the basis for one of the movements in his "Trout Quintet"), and I think the text is charming. If you wanted to do more than one Schubert song, you could add one of his "water" songs, like the gorgeous "Auf dem Wasser zu singen". If the foreign language is a problem, you could read a translation of each poem before you sing the song.
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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