"I fear, lest I lose you while I am sleeping"
The feeling of not wanting to fall asleep because you’d miss being conscious in the arms of your beloved, that’s what this song is about. Hageman captures the fear, the sadness of potential loss, the dreaminess.
- Video (Ezra Bershatsky) – YouTube
- Text (Sir Rabindranath Tagore) – recmusic.org
- Score – Internet Archive
- Article on Richard Hageman – Wikipedia
I wanted to link a full performance by an established professional and hesitated to link only to a YouTube video of a young singer, especially since there are other professional recordings available on CD (John Aler, Thomas Hampson, to name a few). Mr. Bershatsky does an admirable job, though, and is the best I could find.
An art song a day 