Schubert: Rastlose Liebe, D 138 - Kiri Te Kanawa

Schubert: Rastlose Liebe, D 138, Op. 5, #1 Poem by: Goethe Schubert’s setting of Rastlose Liebe by Goethe is chronologically the next masterpiece to follow “Gretchen am Spinnrade“. As in the latter, Schubert meets the intensity of emotion in Goethe’s verses by composing a leitmotif which conveys the external and internal scenes. The six bar piano prelude seizes the impetuous mood of Goethe’s poem. The semiquaver arpeggios and ascending dynamics suggest the swirling snow scene and the poet’s per