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Winterreise
Gute Nacht
Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh' ich wieder aus.
Der Mai war mir gewogen
Mit manchem Blumenstrauß.
Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe,
Die Mutter gar von Eh', -
Nun ist die Welt so trübe,
Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee.
Ich kann zu meiner Reisen
Nicht wählen mit der Zeit,
Muß selbst den Weg mir weisen
In dieser Dunkelheit.
Es zieht ein Mondenschatten
Als mein Gefährte mit,
Und auf den weißen Matten
Such' ich des Wildes Tritt.
Was soll ich länger weilen,
Daß man mich trieb hinaus ?
Laß irre Hunde heulen
Vor ihres Herren Haus;
Die Liebe liebt das Wandern -
Gott hat sie so gemacht -
Von einem zu dem andern.
Fein Liebchen, gute Nacht !
Will dich im Traum nicht stören,
Wär schad' um deine Ruh'.
Sollst meinen Tritt nicht hören -
Sacht, sacht die Türe zu !
Schreib im Vorübergehen
Ans Tor dir: Gute Nacht,
Damit du mögest sehen,
An dich hab' ich gedacht.
Wilhelm Müller
VOYAGE D’HIVER
Bonne nuit
En étranger je suis venu,
en étranger m’en suis allé.
Le mois de mai fut accueillant
avec ses mille fleurs.
La jeune fille parlait d’amour,
sa mère de mariage.
À présent la nature est si désolée,
le sentier couvert de neige.
J’ai dû me mettre en route
sans choisir le moment,
et chercher mon chemin
tout seul dans l’obscurité.
Un rayon de lune
est mon seul compagnon,
et sur la blanche prairie
je suis la trace du gibier.
Pourquoi davantage m’attarder,
jusqu’à ce que l’on me chasse ?
Laissez les chiens hurler
devant la maison de leur maître ;
l’amour aime errer
Dieu l’a fait ainsi
d’un objet à l’autre.
Ma bien-aimée,bonne nuit !
Je ne veux pas troubler tes rêves,
ce serait dommage pour ton repos.
Tu n’entendras pas résonner mon pas,
doucement je ferme la porte !
Et j’écris en passant ta grille
un mot pour toi :Bonne nuit,
afin que tu puisses voir
que j’ai pensé à toi.
WINTER’S JOURNEY
Goodnight
A stranger I arrived here,
a stranger I go hence.
Maytime was good to me
with many a bunch of flowers.
The girl spoke of love,
her mother even of marriage.
Now the world is dismal,
the path veiled in snow.
For my journey I cannot
choose my own time;
I must pick the way myself
through this darkness.
My mooncast shadow acts
as my companion
and on the white meadow
I look for deer’s footprints.
Why should I stay longer
until they drive me away?
Let stray dogs howl
outside the master’s house.
Love loves to rove
God made it so
from one to the next.
Sweetheart,goodnight!
I will not disturb your dreams:
that would spoil your rest.
You must not hear my footsteps
soft,softly shut the doors!
As I leave I shall write
‘Goodnight’upon the gate for you,
so that you may see
I have been thinking of you.
Thomas Quasthoff speaks very frankly...
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Gute Nacht
Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh' ich wieder aus.
Der Mai war mir gewogen
Mit manchem Blumenstrauß.
Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe,
Die Mutter gar von Eh', -
Nun ist die Welt so trübe,
Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee.
Ich kann zu meiner Reisen
Nicht wählen mit der Zeit,
Muß selbst den Weg mir weisen
In dieser Dunkelheit.
Es zieht ein Mondenschatten
Als mein Gefährte mit,
Und auf den weißen Matten
Such' ich des Wildes Tritt.
Was soll ich länger weilen,
Daß man mich trieb hinaus ?
Laß irre Hunde heulen
Vor ihres Herren Haus;
Die Liebe liebt das Wandern -
Gott hat sie so gemacht -
Von einem zu dem andern.
Fein Liebchen, gute Nacht !
Will dich im Traum nicht stören,
Wär schad' um deine Ruh'.
Sollst meinen Tritt nicht hören -
Sacht, sacht die Türe zu !
Schreib im Vorübergehen
Ans Tor dir: Gute Nacht,
Damit du mögest sehen,
An dich hab' ich gedacht.
Wilhelm Müller
VOYAGE D’HIVER
Bonne nuit
En étranger je suis venu,
en étranger m’en suis allé.
Le mois de mai fut accueillant
avec ses mille fleurs.
La jeune fille parlait d’amour,
sa mère de mariage.
À présent la nature est si désolée,
le sentier couvert de neige.
J’ai dû me mettre en route
sans choisir le moment,
et chercher mon chemin
tout seul dans l’obscurité.
Un rayon de lune
est mon seul compagnon,
et sur la blanche prairie
je suis la trace du gibier.
Pourquoi davantage m’attarder,
jusqu’à ce que l’on me chasse ?
Laissez les chiens hurler
devant la maison de leur maître ;
l’amour aime errer
Dieu l’a fait ainsi
d’un objet à l’autre.
Ma bien-aimée,bonne nuit !
Je ne veux pas troubler tes rêves,
ce serait dommage pour ton repos.
Tu n’entendras pas résonner mon pas,
doucement je ferme la porte !
Et j’écris en passant ta grille
un mot pour toi :Bonne nuit,
afin que tu puisses voir
que j’ai pensé à toi.
WINTER’S JOURNEY
Goodnight
A stranger I arrived here,
a stranger I go hence.
Maytime was good to me
with many a bunch of flowers.
The girl spoke of love,
her mother even of marriage.
Now the world is dismal,
the path veiled in snow.
For my journey I cannot
choose my own time;
I must pick the way myself
through this darkness.
My mooncast shadow acts
as my companion
and on the white meadow
I look for deer’s footprints.
Why should I stay longer
until they drive me away?
Let stray dogs howl
outside the master’s house.
Love loves to rove
God made it so
from one to the next.
Sweetheart,goodnight!
I will not disturb your dreams:
that would spoil your rest.
You must not hear my footsteps
soft,softly shut the doors!
As I leave I shall write
‘Goodnight’upon the gate for you,
so that you may see
I have been thinking of you.
Thomas Quasthoff speaks very frankly...
Unstoppable now, Quasthoff switches to music education.
"A cultured population is better than an uncultured one.
In Britain it would be more useful to invest in music than in wars.
This Iraq war is the most stupid, incredible, dumb project
that the British Government has ever been involved with.
Would you want to have to tell a mother her son
died because of a war which is a lie?
But Bush is doing it, and Blair,too.
I'm very proud of my Chancellor for saying we wouldn't enter this war.
So now you know my politics, too. I'm a red one, an old socialist.
A really big artist can never be Nazi.
And as for Israel's attitude to Wagner, it's disgusting.
Is it his fault he was misappropriated by the Nazis?
Everyone was anti-Semitic in his time."
He launches a furious attack on members of the Knesset who walked out
recently when President Kohler addressed them in German, adding that he
speaks as one who would not have survived the Nazi regime.
Then he asks why Palestinians and Israelis can't learn from history.
"To come through a conflict and build a wall?
Excuse me, Germany showed it is impossible to do this."
He detests the tendency to use the past
as an excuse for present behaviour.
"I was once on a talk-show with other Thalidomide survivors.
Someone in a wheelchair behaved so disgracefully I said
I would kick him if he didn't stop.
He's a lawyer, and he's still fighting for compensation.
But his behaviour was bad. He ordered his mother around and I said,
'Why do you treat your mother like this.
Don't you think she has suffered 40 years of guilt
and now you talk to her like this. Are you crazy?
You have money, a profession. What more do you want?' "
"A cultured population is better than an uncultured one.
In Britain it would be more useful to invest in music than in wars.
This Iraq war is the most stupid, incredible, dumb project
that the British Government has ever been involved with.
Would you want to have to tell a mother her son
died because of a war which is a lie?
But Bush is doing it, and Blair,too.
I'm very proud of my Chancellor for saying we wouldn't enter this war.
So now you know my politics, too. I'm a red one, an old socialist.
A really big artist can never be Nazi.
And as for Israel's attitude to Wagner, it's disgusting.
Is it his fault he was misappropriated by the Nazis?
Everyone was anti-Semitic in his time."
He launches a furious attack on members of the Knesset who walked out
recently when President Kohler addressed them in German, adding that he
speaks as one who would not have survived the Nazi regime.
Then he asks why Palestinians and Israelis can't learn from history.
"To come through a conflict and build a wall?
Excuse me, Germany showed it is impossible to do this."
He detests the tendency to use the past
as an excuse for present behaviour.
"I was once on a talk-show with other Thalidomide survivors.
Someone in a wheelchair behaved so disgracefully I said
I would kick him if he didn't stop.
He's a lawyer, and he's still fighting for compensation.
But his behaviour was bad. He ordered his mother around and I said,
'Why do you treat your mother like this.
Don't you think she has suffered 40 years of guilt
and now you talk to her like this. Are you crazy?
You have money, a profession. What more do you want?' "
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