Flashback to Schwarzenberg and Franz Schubert special day, today.

(One of these days the Schubert project in Schwarzenberg will release cds, or best ofs from the  artists who perform in this heavenly mountain spot each year.
I made the journey for 'Anja Harteros singing Schubert 'accompanied by Wolfam Rieger at the piano, the three of them  were united in a special musical wedlock!
On the 19th of Nov in 1828 Franz  left this material world he hardly belonged to.
But he still can bring lots of warm feelings when they are needed, in his quiet way of phrasing feelings on poems like 'Im Abendrot' where it is like a musical sunset of life but with hope as the lied ends on  major tone.
I often watch sunsets when I am at the seaside, in Marseille or like last Summer at Hayling Island.(top photo)
 It is difficul to retain the sinking rays on photos. Schubert has done it so well with music.
Anja Harteros manages every feeling expressed by the music and the words in a phrasing which is only hers... the long painful variations on 'zusammenbricht'  the deep 'Glüt' even deeper the second time. I remember I felt tears coming... but soon was reassured by the major tone on 'Licht'.
Soon light will come again!
Carpe Diem...

Im Abendrot
 Karl Gottlieb Lappe 1773-1843.

D. 799 (1824 oder 1825)
O wie schön ist deine Welt,
Vater, wenn sie golden strahlet!
Wenn dein Glanz herniederfällt
Und den Staub mit Schimmer malet, Wenn das Rot, das in der Wolke blinkt, In mein stilles Fenster sinkt!
Könnt ich klagen, könnt ich zagen? Irre sein an dir und mir?
Nein, ich will im Busen tragen

Deinen Himmel schon allhier.
Und dies Herz, eh’ es zusammenbricht, Trinkt noch Glut und schlürft noch Licht.

O how fair is your world,
Father, when you send your golden beams! When your lustre comes down
And paints the dust with light,
When the red that shines in the clouds Sinks to my quiet window!
Could I complain, could I waver? Be false to you and me?

 No, I will carry in my bosom
Your heaven even here.
And this heart, before it breaks, Drinks still fire and sips still the light.

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