On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 sopran@a... wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'd be interested to know what songs (no arias, please) you consider to be
> the most beautiful (in terms of the complete package--melody, text and
> accompaniment).
> So what would be on your list?
"Beim Schlafengehen" from Richard Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder
"Ah, love but a day" from Amy Beach's Three Poems by Robert Browning
"Geistliches Wiegenlied" from Johannes Brahms's Zwei Lieder op. 91
"Loveliest of Trees" from George Butterworth's "Songs from 'A Shropshire
Lad'"
KM
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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt,
Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet.
-- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER
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