a Cycle of 4 Songs
on Poems by Poe, Emerson and Dickinson
An excerpt, featuring Eleonore Marguerre, soprano — Andreas Korn, piano
Hochschule für Musik, FRANZ LISZT, in Weimar — Joachim Müller, engineer
Brahma
Brahma
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.