Jakob Fabricius, Souvenir - Oda Zoe Hochscheid & Doris Hochscheid & Frans van Ruth

Jakob Fabricius (1840-1919), Souvenir
poem by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)
LIVE RECORDING

Oda Zoe Hochscheid, mezzosoprano
Doris Hochscheid, violoncello
Frans van Ruth, piano

The composer, visionary cultural entrepreneur and investor Jakob Fabricius made an impact on Danish musical life that still resonates today. During his lifetime, his mainly choral and vocal chamber compositions were regularly performed in Berlin and Paris.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, actress and poet, was highly estimated by Balzac during her lifetime, and after her death by Verlaine and Nietzsche.

Quand il pâlit un soir, et que sa voix tremblante
S’éteignit tout à coup dans un mot commencé;
Quand ses yeux, soulevant leur paupière brûlante,
Me blessèrent d’un mal dont je le crus blessé;
Quand ses traits plus touchants, éclairés d’une flamme
Qui ne s’éteint jamais,
S’imprimèrent vivants dans le fond de mon âme:
Il n’aimait pas, j’aimais!

When, one night, he turned pale, and his trembling voice
Suddenly stopped in the middle of a word;
When his eyes, lifting their burning lashes,
hurt me with a pain I thought him hurt with,
When his moving features, illuminated by a never dying flame,
left their stamp in the deepest of my soul:
He did not love, I loved!

Recorded December 2019 @Dorpskerk, Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands
Concert organised by CultBee:
https://sites.google.com/site/cultbee/

Learn more about the musicians on
https://www.cellosonate.nl
https://www.odazoehochscheid.com
https://www.dorishochscheid.nl
https://www.fransvanruth.nl