Description

The German romantics do not cease to remind us that the joy of renewal is but the beginning of a cycle and the wheel of destiny must turn. Lieder, from Schubert to Wolf, reveal the Romantic Movement of the 19th century-from its roots in the Age of Enlightenment to the beginning of the modern age. Lieder, like an aphorism, undogmatic, un-planified, like a flash of lightening, a glance, a breeze, are born from nothing, from a little sorrow, a moment of anguish perhaps, a smile sometimes, a ray of sunshine, the sweet song of a bird.