Sung by Dale Smith

Nachklang (Echo)
Ich sah als Knabe Blumen bluhn (When a boy I saw the flowers blooming)

The Echo in the first song is a sorrowful afterthought of the golden hours that are past.

In the next song the same poet, Klaus Groth, makes the same moan, again - 'Where now is the glory of my youth?' This kind of mental helplessness sadly afflicts German poetry.

Brahms, like our Stanford, Vaughan Williams, and Holst, was fond of arranging the folk-songs of his country. One of the most exquisite and most popular of these 'arrangements' is the little song about the Sandman who comes round about dusk and drops sand into children's eyes and sends them to sleep.

The Serenade, also a folk-song, has an unassuming tune with a very pretty phrase coming in at the end of each verse like an afterthought.