Today's Classical Corner... Rachmaninoff's Pied Piper!
Completed in 1916, it is brilliantly playful and innocent, contrasting the cruelty in the lyric, which conveys Briusov's version of Grimm's tale about a bold, boastful seduction of a girl, later sent to the pasture to be with the lambs. It is the same version set to music by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf.
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