Voices of Music | Schubert: Die Forelle (The Trout) D.550. Thomas Cooley, tenor; Eric Zivian, fortepiano (original) 8K @VoicesofMusic | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 minutes ago.
Franz Schubert's epic tale of the trout, sung by Thomas Cooley, tenor, with Eric Zivian on an original 19th-century fortepiano. 8K video from our "Evening in Vienna" concert, February 18, 2024.
In the celebrated “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”), listen for the quicksilver piano at the opening, which reflects both the elegance of the fish’s movements and the narrator’s joy at seeing such a beautiful creature. Of course, the episodes depicted in Romantic poetry are never uniformly happy, and the fish’s fortune turns when an angler arrives on the scene.
This work is presented here for the first time in 8K UHD video.
Text and translation
In einem Bächlein helle,
Da schoß in froher Eil’
Die launische Forelle
Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.
Ich stand an dem Gestade
Und sah in süßer Ruh
Des muntern Fischleins Bade
Im klaren Bächlein zu.
Ein Fischer mit der Rute
Wohl an dem Ufer stand,
Und sah’s mit kaltem Blute,
Wie sich das Fischlein wand.
So lang dem Wasser Helle,
So dacht ich, nicht gebricht,
So fängt er die Forelle
Mit seiner Angel nicht.
Doch endlich ward dem Diebe
Die Zeit zu lang. Er macht
Das Bächlein tückisch trübe,
Und eh ich es gedacht,
So zuckte seine Rute,
Das Fischlein zappelt dran,
Und ich mit regem Blute
Sah die Betrogene an. --Christian Schubart
In a clear brooklet
there shot by in joyous haste
the capricious trout
like an arrow.
I stood on the bank
in blissful peace, watching
the lively fish swim in the clear brook.
A fisherman with his rod
stood on the bank
cold-bloodedly watching
the fish’s twists and turns.
As long as the water
remains so clear, I thought,
he won’t catch the trout
with his rod.
But at last the thief
grew impatient. Cunningly
he made the brook cloudy,
and before I realized it
his rod twitched,
and the fish struggled on it.
And I, my blood boiling,
looked on at the deceived creature.
Translation by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, directors
voicesofmusic.org
Produced by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Video: Lloyd Hryciw and David Tayler
Audio and ambisonics: Boby Borisov
Post Production: David Tayler
Notes: Sophie Benn
Lied by Franz Schubert
Fortepiano by Franz Rausch, Vienna (Wien) 1841
#trout
Franz Schubert's epic tale of the trout, sung by Thomas Cooley, tenor, with Eric Zivian on an original 19th-century fortepiano. 8K video from our "Evening in Vienna" concert, February 18, 2024.
In the celebrated “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”), listen for the quicksilver piano at the opening, which reflects both the elegance of the fish’s movements and the narrator’s joy at seeing such a beautiful creature. Of course, the episodes depicted in Romantic poetry are never uniformly happy, and the fish’s fortune turns when an angler arrives on the scene.
This work is presented here for the first time in 8K UHD video.
Text and translation
In einem Bächlein helle,
Da schoß in froher Eil’
Die launische Forelle
Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.
Ich stand an dem Gestade
Und sah in süßer Ruh
Des muntern Fischleins Bade
Im klaren Bächlein zu.
Ein Fischer mit der Rute
Wohl an dem Ufer stand,
Und sah’s mit kaltem Blute,
Wie sich das Fischlein wand.
So lang dem Wasser Helle,
So dacht ich, nicht gebricht,
So fängt er die Forelle
Mit seiner Angel nicht.
Doch endlich ward dem Diebe
Die Zeit zu lang. Er macht
Das Bächlein tückisch trübe,
Und eh ich es gedacht,
So zuckte seine Rute,
Das Fischlein zappelt dran,
Und ich mit regem Blute
Sah die Betrogene an. --Christian Schubart
In a clear brooklet
there shot by in joyous haste
the capricious trout
like an arrow.
I stood on the bank
in blissful peace, watching
the lively fish swim in the clear brook.
A fisherman with his rod
stood on the bank
cold-bloodedly watching
the fish’s twists and turns.
As long as the water
remains so clear, I thought,
he won’t catch the trout
with his rod.
But at last the thief
grew impatient. Cunningly
he made the brook cloudy,
and before I realized it
his rod twitched,
and the fish struggled on it.
And I, my blood boiling,
looked on at the deceived creature.
Translation by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, directors
voicesofmusic.org
Produced by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Video: Lloyd Hryciw and David Tayler
Audio and ambisonics: Boby Borisov
Post Production: David Tayler
Notes: Sophie Benn
Lied by Franz Schubert
Fortepiano by Franz Rausch, Vienna (Wien) 1841
#trout
