Original title: 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op.127.

Scoring: Voice, piano.

Nos. 1–3 and 5 date from 1840; No. 4, Mein altes Ross, dates from 1850. The collection brings together songs from... Read more

Original title: 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op.127.

Scoring: Voice, piano.

Nos. 1–3 and 5 date from 1840; No. 4, Mein altes Ross, dates from 1850. The collection brings together songs from different years; Nos. 2 and 3 were originally intended for Dichterliebe.

Poems by Justinus Kerner, Heinrich Heine and Moritz von Strachwitz; the final song is from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in Ernst Ortlepp’s translation.

Movements / numbers:
1. Sängers Trost
2. Dein Angesicht
3. Es leuchtet meine Liebe
4. Mein altes Ross
5. Schlußlied des Narren

Close