Winterreise (Winter's Journey) - Irrlicht (Will-o'-the-Wisp)

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Franz Schubert's song cycle, Winterreise (Winter's Journey) performed by baritone David Dillard and pianist Erica Ann Sipes.
Virginia Tech, October 15, 2010

To read the pianist's view of this piece, please go to
http://ericaannsipes.blogspot.com/2010/09/no-rest-for-weary-irrlicht-will-o-wisp.html

Paintings to accompany the songs by the famous singer, Lotte Lehmann. Paintings taken from the website http://www.gopera.com/winterreise/articles/ll_paintings/

Translations done by Barry Mitchell and found on his website at http://theoryofmusic.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/english-translation-of-schuberts-winterreise-poems-by-w-muller/

If anyone has an issue with the use of these paintings or translations, please contact me directly first so that I can do what needs to be done, if anything. Thank you.

*Irrlicht (Will-o'-the-Wisp)*

Will O' the Wisp has led me
Deep into a rocky maze
I look from right to left
I seek a path, but there is none

I'm about to lose my way
All paths appear the same
Our joys and sorrows are no more real
Than this teasing phantom light

Through the gorge where the river rushed
I'll calmly travel on
Every river flows to the sea
Every sorrow will come to an end