[Publius]

In these threads, I have the mission of exposing FReepers to the great art songs of the 19th Century. That's why I also posted Chausson, Schumann and quite a bit of Schubert.

I've always viewed "Spring" as Greg's greatest achievement in music.

[P.O.E.]

You can hear echoes of it in early 1900's recordings. WFMU used to have a show playing Edison Cylinders

I grew up listening to 78's in an Italian household, so I'm used to all sorts of melancholic romantic music.

Thanks again.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'll see the Romantics, and raise you a Franco-Burgundian - (see above).

A bonus:

Pleine de dueil (full of sorrow).

This may be the prettiest thing I have heard in a long time. Wait for the cascading repetitions with the countertenor on "pour me reconforter."

Full of pain and sadness,
seeing that my suffering increases all the time,
and that in the end I can’t bear it anymore,
I’m constrained, in order to comfort myself,
to render the rest of my life to you.
I beg you and humbly ask,
for the pains that fill me,
never to leave me,
since I’m yours for the rest of my life.