12-04-2014, 12:01 AM
Thank you, Billy and ChristopherSea, for your considered and detailed feedback. Very grateful. I'll be working on an edit over the next few days, and you've both given me much food for thought.
Realised I should probably explain the title a little: the words are taken from the poem 'Der Lindenbaum' by Wilhelm Müller – a poem most famous for its setting by Schubert in the song cycle Winterreise. Here's a video of the inimitable Fischer-Dieskau singing it, with the wonderful Gerald Moore accompanying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXBNePEDTEo
Realised I should probably explain the title a little: the words are taken from the poem 'Der Lindenbaum' by Wilhelm Müller – a poem most famous for its setting by Schubert in the song cycle Winterreise. Here's a video of the inimitable Fischer-Dieskau singing it, with the wonderful Gerald Moore accompanying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXBNePEDTEo