"This, then is our desert:
to live facing despair,
but not to consent.
To trample it down under hope in the Cross.
To wage war against despair unceasingly.
That war is our wilderness.
If we wage it courageously,
we will find Christ at our side.
If we cannot face it,
we will never find him."
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
From Mahler's Rückert-Lieder - just because.............
I love this moving performance, intensified as it is by the frail appearance of the great Claudio Abbado - playing it yet again as I type! Many thanks for posting it.
I love this moving performance, intensified as it is by the frail appearance of the great Claudio Abbado - playing it yet again as I type!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for posting it.