SONG­Ba­sel: To the dis­tant bel­oved

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
To the distant beloved op.98 (1816) (Alois Jeitteles)

I sit on the hill, watching

Where the mountains are so blue

Light sailboats in the heights

These clouds in the heights

May is returning, the meadow is blooming

Take them then, these songs


Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Five songs for a voice and piano op. 40 (1840)

(Adelbert von Chamisso after Hans Christian Andersen (1st-4th), after Claude Fauriel (5th))

March violets

Mother's dream

The soldier

The minstrel

Love betrayed
Belshazzar op. 57 (1840) (Heinrich Heine)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
How I pull myself together in the night op. 32 no. 1 (1864) (August von Platen)
In the churchyard op. 105 no. 4 (1886–88) (Detlev von Liliencron)
Death, that is the cool night op. 96 no. 1 (1884) (Heinrich Heine)
Moonlight op. 85 no. 2 (1878) (Heinrich Heine)
How are you, my queen op. 32 no. 9 (1864) (Georg Friedrich Daumer)
Solitude in the fields op. 86 no. 2 (1877–79) (Hermann Allmers)
Summer evening op. 85 no. 1 (1878) (Heinrich Heine)
The May night op. 43 no. 2 (1866) (Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty)