Three Schubert songs for male choir and small orchestra op. 120
Words by Heinrich Heine and Wilhelm Müller
On themes by Franz Schubert
I Das Fischermädchen "Du schönes Fischermädchen"
II Die Stadt "Am fernen Horizonte"
III Der Lindenbaum "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore"
Wilhelm Rettich belonged to that generation of those whose work and life was deeply affected by the First and Second World Wars. Captivity, persecution, hiding and losses scarred his life. In 1933, he emigrated to the Netherlands, where he survived the war in hiding. Rettich worked a great deal for the radio, a young and progressive medium at that time. Although he became a Dutch citizen after the World War II, he returned to Germany in 1964.
by Diet Scholten