My recital songs today transport me back to my 19th year when an epic love connection hit me like a ton of bricks. Time to escape the tempered nuances that years bring to revisit this impactful time and conjure the catastrophic big feelings. #classicalsinger #lieder #akintsucrooner
SAD SONG/DUPARC
An ethereal prose desperately seeking a void filling love to find healing of a broken spirit. Written when Duparc was 20 in the throws of depression.
Moonlight slumbers in your heart, a gentle summer moonlight. And to escape the cares of life, I shall drown myself in your light. I shall forget past sorrows, my sweet, when you cradle my sad heart and my thoughts in the loving calm of your arms. You will rest my poor head, ah! sometimes on your lap, and recite to it a ballad that will seem to speak of us. And from your eyes full of sorrow, from your eyes I shall then drink. So many kisses and so much love that perhaps I shall be healed.
IF LOVE HAS TOUCHED YOU/MARX
Prose by deeply felt 19th century Austrian tonal composer (who was a self taught pianist because his parents forbade him to play) about the fragile euphoria and the naive hope that comes with new love.
If Love has touched you softly amid noisy mankind, you will walk on a cloud of gold, led safely by God. You gaze about you as though you are lost. You do not begrudge others their happiness. Only one single thing do you desire. In shy and rapt introspection you deny in vain that life’s gleaming crown now adorns your brow.
akintsucrooner 