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On Saturday, April 10, 2021, in Fribourg in the west of Switzerland, Besuch der Lieder, the troupe of musicians with whom I serve as a dramaturge, staged its first performance after a hiatus of more than a year: for once, however, not, as our concept dictates, an in-house song recital in the fashion of the nineteenth century, but rather,
COVID oblige, a live stream via YouTube. Annina Haug, mezzo-soprano, and Edward Rushton, piano, performed
Lieder by Schumann and Strauss and
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lodies by Fauré and Saint-Saëns; I commented on our choice of songs. What follows is our programme, with links to the texts sung in their original languages, interspersed with an adapted version of my remarks (given on the occasion, in honor of the bilingual character of the host canton, in German and French, as well as in English; translations of poems below are mine). The recital itself can still be “attended” here.
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“I am a Scotsman,” Sir Walter Scott once wrote; “therefore I had to fight my way into the world.” This list explains how these 14 buildings fought their way onto Scottish soil.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Craigievar Castle
If there is one castle that typifies the jaggedly romantic outline of the traditional Scottish tower house, it is Craigievar Castle in Aberdeenshire. With its jumble of oversailing gables and turrets emphasizing an uncompromising verticality, it wears the ceremonial dress of warlike display rather than the armor of battle. Bristling with features such as corbelling and fictive cannons, it was built to look fortified at a time when the need for serious defensive protection had largely passed but when the prestige associated with military endeavor was still deeply embe