Franz Schubert - Ellens Gesang Nr 3 - Ave Maria

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This is the fourth in my series of Schubert songs from Sir Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake". This song is popularly known as the "Ave Maria", but actually stems from Schubert's cycle of three of Ellen's songs from the Scott epic poem. In the Scott work the main character of Ellen Douglas has taken refuge with her father, Lord James Douglas, in the Goblin Cave on Loch Katrine, in order to hide from the forces of the Scottish King James V and avoid her father being taken prisoner. Ellen sings ...