This is a classical night for me because Schubert wrote so much water music. This is a song about blonde, blue-eyed, strong Aryan men thwarting the ambitions of villains of a faintly Latin character. The poem was written by Johann Mayrhofer, a poet of the first rank and roommate of Schubert, who was gay and quite obsessed with the ancient Greeks and their sexual proclivities. It's a Hitler Youth anthem a century before Hitler. The piano part is absolute murder to play.
Schubert: "The Boatman"