009 Die schöne Müllerin: Georgy Vinogradov sings Schubert

Georgy Pavlovich Vinogradov (Георгий Павлович Виноградов) sings "The Miller's Flowers", the ninth song of Franz Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin" (Beautiful Miller's Wife), written in 1823. The songs were originally a poem by Wilhelm Müller, and here they are translated into Russian by I.Tyumenev. The recording was probably made in Moscow in around 1951.

THIS IS SONG NO. 9 OF A TRAGIC LOVE STORY IN 20 SONGS, HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FD49FDFFF5606492
TO FOLLOW THE STORY, READ POTTED WORDAGE BELOW. (The second courting-song: a toy; musical-box waltz.)

Potted wordage #9:
I'll plant forget-me-nots under her window because they have blue eyes like hers . . . and because they will tell her in her dreams to forget me not . . . Flowers, please look at her in the morning; the dew in your eyes will be my tears.

Games with a musical box! The audience loves a ballad (four lines per verse, four beats per line), but this one has a triplet on each beat, which turns it into a waltz, and it uses arpeggios which turns it into a yodel. And it's predictable enough so that people can join in, and they know what's coming next. They can beat time to it. In this song, they sort of get what they want; but they get teased because the rhythm lurches about in the accompaniment between the verses like a music-box running down; the verses end on an unresolved chord, and the refrain has five beats to a line instead of the standard four. It's those tensions which make this music-box tune an exquisite, expensive and refined little toy.

Film location: Crimple Valley Garden Centre at Pannal, North Yorkshire. A big thank you to the garden centre for permission to film there

OK, folks: sorry they're not forget-me-nots; it was autumn when I filmed this.

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