A Song Cycle by Alexander von Fielitz
Sung by HARRY BREARLEY (Tenor)
Accompanied by LLOYD HARTLEY
A GAINST a background of blue lake and snowy
Alps is told this story of the love of a monk for a nun. He was once a hunter and a maker of songs. She was the daughter of a count, who came to take her vows reluctantly and in tears. ;
In the first two songs the monk tells of his discontent and of her coming. H) then sings about their love and their poor little stolen greetings; rose-leaves carried by the wind, a glance in church, her voice singing under the lindens. Then, the secret discovered, in the ninth song, the Abbot condemns him and bids him .bury his songs in the forest.