Today's posts

The poem this week is ‘Die Lorelei’.

 

Heinrich Heine wrote this poem in 1824 taking the story from an old legend. It has been set to music many times, notably by Friedrich Silcher, Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt.

 

In Heine’s poem not a word can be bettered. Not a word is out of place. There is even one of five syllables! ‘The evening rays that shine’ is ‘Abendsonnenschein’. How clear and yet how musical German can be! 

 

 

Today I am posting the second episode of ‘The Red Ferrari’: “Ana is recruited, James’s computer is hacked, April appears and everyone goes to Falsetto’s on Friday evening”.