Schubert: The Trout (Wiener Sängerknaben)

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THIS!
Vienna Boy's Choir singing The Trout by Schubert.

In einem Bächlein helle,
Da schoß in froher Eil
Die [launige]1 Forelle
Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.
Ich stand an dem Gestade
Und sah in süßer Ruh
Des muntern [Fisches]2 Bade
Im klaren Bächlein zu.

Ein Fischer mit der Rute
Wohl an dem Ufer stand,
Und sah's mit kaltem Blute,
Wie sich das Fischlein wand.
So lang dem Wasser Helle,
So dacht ich, nicht gebricht,
So fängt er die Forelle
Mit seiner Angel nicht.

Doch [plötzlich]3 ward dem Diebe
Die Zeit zu lang. Er macht
Das Bächlein tückisch trübe,
Und eh ich es gedacht,
So zuckte seine Rute,
Das Fischlein zappelt dran,
Und ich mit regem Blute
Sah die Betrogene an.


Across a clear brook gentle,
There shot in eager haste
The trout, so tempramental;
Quite arrow-like it raced.
I on the shore was gazing
And watched the brook disclose
The merry fish's bathing
To me in sweet repose.

An angler's reel unrolled
From where he stood below.
He watched with blood most cold
The fish swim to and fro.
So long no stone or sod
Stirred up the water pure
The trout from line and rod
Would stay, I thought, secure.

At length the thief lost patience
And made the brook obscure
With crafty agitations,
And ere I could be sure
The rod had started curving;
The squirming fish was hooked.
With pounding blood observing,
At the betrayed, I looked.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• vienna boys choir
• weiner sangerknaben
• schubert
• the trout

[Gutbrand]

NIce to hear this again - I heard it as a child when my father used to play it on Sunday"s- thanks a lot!

[ifuliki]

OF ALL THE LIEDER SCHUBERT WROTE THIS IS ONE OF MY VERY FAVOURITES.

It is beautifully sung by those talented kids of the Wienersangerknaben. I just love this.

Aled

[loupblanc26]

Magnificent performanceof WSK! Thank you

[benoitmaur]

beatiful