Echo and Narcissus/Debussy "La Grotte" Fischer-Dieskau

The story of Echo and Narcissus as told through art.

Link to the myth here:

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/mmarassa/mythology/echo.html



Music: "La Grotte" by Claude Debussy
Poem by Tristan L'Hermite

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Karl Engel (piano) Auprès de cette grotte sombre
Où l'on respire air si doux,
L'onde lutte avec les cailloux
Et la lumière avecque l'ombre.

Ces flots, lassés de l'exercise
Qu'ils ont fait dessus de gravier,
Se reposent dans ce rivier
Où mourut autrefois Narcisse...

L'ombre de cette fleur vermeille
Et celle de ces joncs pendants
Paraissent estre là-dedans
Les songes de l'eau qui sommeille. Close to this dark grotto
where one breathes such sweet air,
the water contends with the pebbles
and the light with the shade.

These ripples, spent with the exercise
that they have made over the shingle,
come to rest in this pool
where once on a time Narcissus died...

The reflection of this crimson flower
and of these drooping reeds
seem to be therein
the dreams of the sleeping water...

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• Echo
• Narcissus
• Greek
• mythology
• Debussy
• Fischer-Dieskau

[AlizLovegood]

What's name of the picture at 1:34? Nice video!

[FiDiTanzer528]

@AlizLovegood

Thanks! The painting is "The Siren" by John William Waterhouse.

[tuandaluza]

5***** Very beautiful history, your video is like a good film, but with wonderful pictures. Thank you!

[FiDiTanzer528]

Thank you so much!

[bobbyes2007]

very nice video, thank you for sharing.