Gustav Mahler:  Ablösung Im Sommer

Gustav Mahler: Ablösung Im Sommer

Summer is usually the time when love has the greatest opportunity to bloom. The soft evenings, the lingering twilight, the wonderful cuisine—fresh produce of every kind—all add up to an awakening of the senses. The collection of German folk poetry Des Knaben...
Hector Berlioz:  La Spectre de la Rose

Hector Berlioz: La Spectre de la Rose

Summer is full of nature, and it’s the time we usually get out into it, and let our senses partake of the beauty, inhale smells, and feel warm breezes on our skin. Then there is the plucked flowers perspective. Death is imminent, but the rose lives on as an unworldly...