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World Music from
Germany?
Holger
Saarmann presents a completely different side of Folk music from his country. On
a long search for traditional roots, he gathered a range of rather intimate and
silent songs in his native language; rarely performed airs full of melancholy
and beauty, others bursting of wit and sarcasm.
This programme reveals that
there is more to German folk songs than hiking and hunting. There are ancient
songs of love and farewell, of deaths and maidens, of dukes and beggars, of
revels and revolution, of luck and loss, of rings and riddles, of seduction and
devotion, of green pastures and cool valleys.
"Under der Linden" is the international version of "Jockel
will nicht Hafer schneiden".
Moderation
is possible in English or French.
Listen to the collected
music samples here,
on the online jukebox last FM.
The German folksongs CD “Hüt
dich, schöns Blümelein!”
may be ordered here, at the shop.
