[HopeandGlory]

Congratulations

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May God watch over you both always

[Publius]

Had there been a market for the Russian art songs of Sergei Rachmaninov, he would no doubt have lined up a good exiled Russian baritone and arranged recitals where he would have been the accompanist. But lieder was a hard sell in America except among the small handful of people who liked to hear the songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf in German. Only a small subset of the songs of these great composers were known outside the German-speaking world.

Of Schubert’s songs, the complete song cycles “The Fair Maid of the Mill” and “Winter Journey” were well known. Both came from the poetry of Wilhelm Müller – that’s Bill Miller to us Americans – and Sergei wrote an arrangement of “Where To?” from the “Fair Maid” cycle as an encore.

Schubert: “Where To?” (Ohlsson on piano)