Ian Bostridge - Der Fischer D.225 (Franz Schubert)

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Franz Schubert - Der Fischer D.225 Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, piano The Fisherman (Der Fischer) The waters murmured, the waters swelled, a fisherman stood on the bank; calmly he gazed at his rod, his heart was cold. And as he sat and listened the waters surged up and divided; from the turbulent flood a water nymph arose. She sang to him, she spoke to him: "Why do you lure my brood with human wit and guile up into the fatal heat? Ah, if you only knew how contented The fish are in the ...