Sailing to Europe and Back Again
Songs from “Water: A Musical Celebration of America’s Heartland and Heart”
Joy, Shipmate, Joy! | Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams | Text: Walt Whitman
Overlooking the River | Music: Gerald Finzi | Text: Thomas Hardy
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome | Music: Franz Liszt | Text: Heinrich Heine
L’Invitation au Voyage | Music: Henri Duparc | Text: Charles Baudelaire
Les Berceaux | Music: Gabriel Fauré | Text: René-François Sully-Prudhomme
La Barque Légère | Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer | Text: Joseph A. N. Naudet
Thomas Hampson, baritone & Vlad Iftinca, piano
Minnesota Beethoven Festival, July 2011
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Winona, Minnesota
Joy, Shipmate, Joy (1925)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Text by Walt Whitman
Read the text and German translation of this song here.
Overlooking the River (1949)
from Before and After Summer, Op. 16
Music by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Text by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (“In the Rhine, in the Beautiful River”) (1856)
Music by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Text by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Read the text and English translation of this song here.
L’Invitation au Voyage (“An Invitation to Voyage”) (1870)
Music by Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
Text by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Les Berceaux (“Cradles”) (1883)
Music by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Text by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907)
La Barque Légère (“The Light Boat”)
Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Text by Joseph A. N. Naudet (1786-1878)
