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Die Lotosblume ängstigt  Sich vor der Sonne Pracht Und mit gesenktem Haupte  Erwartet sie träumend die Nacht.  Der Mond, ist i...

JMW Turner : Mont Blanc, Val d'Aosta Alphonse de Lamartine Le Vallon , a poem I've loved since I was a kid. Today I pulled ou...

By the banks of the Cam in Cambridge, a rock dressed with Beijing marble, with an inscription that reads : " I leave as quietly as I...

Wilfred Owen died 100 years ago, but his poetry has made him immortal.  B ut what shaped Owen's personality, and his singular art ? ...

From A E Housman's On Wenlock Edge , set by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Clun" the last song, tucked away at the end when all ...

Ao longo da viola morosa Vai adormecendo a parlenda, Sem que, amadornado, eu atenda A lengalenga fastidiosa. Sem que o meu coração se pre...

Mutter, wozu hast du deinen Sohn aufgezogen? Hast dich zwanzig' Jahr mit ihm gequält?  Wozu ist er dir in deinen Arm geflogen, ...

Matthias Goerne Schumann Lieder, with Markus Hinterhäuser, a new recording from Harmonia Mundi.  Singers, especially baritones, often co...

Another hit for NMC, specialists in modern British music: Howard Skempton T he Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Roderick Williams and the...

Wie herrlich leuchtet Mir die Natur! Wie glänzt die Sonne! Wie lacht die Flur! Es dringen Blüten Aus jedem Zweig Und tausend Sti...

Eduard Mörike Karwoche (Holy Week) O Woche, Zeugin heiliger Beschwerde! Du stimmst so ernst zu dieser Frühlingswonne,  Du br...

photo: Phillip Halling His thoughts dropped back Through eighteen years, and he again saw Jack  At the old home beneath the Malvern ...

Ernst Hanfstängl (1840 Dresden 1897 Capri) Aschermittwoch aus unserer Rubrik Am Aschermittwoch ist alles vorbei, die Schwüre von Treue ...

Es ist ein Schnee gefallen,  denn es ist noch nicht Zeit,  daß von den Blümlein allen  wir werden hoch erfreut.   Der Sonnenblic...

Ossian on the banks of the Lora - Francois Gérard 1801 Despite inspiring some of the most sublime music ever written (Mendelssohn) and ...

  "An inhabited landscape", Ivor Gurney and his sensitivity to the human landscape around him, past and present. He was obser...

Roderick Williams and Susie Allan  gave the world premiere of A Swift Radiant Morning commissioned for theThree Choirs Festival. Listen h...

Jerusalem is so embedded in the British national consciousness that it seems to have been around forever. Yet Hubert Parry's setting...

Auf eine Christblume : a poem by Eduard Mörike , set by Hugo Wolf at Percholdtsdorf in April 1888, encapsulates so much of the spirit of...

Eager anticipation for Benjamin Appl's recital with Graham Johnson at the Wigmore Hall , since Appl is one of the most promising yo...