Edvart Grieg: Våren (Last Spring), Op.33 No.2

Edvart Grieg: Våren (Last Spring) Anne Evers, Sopran Jens Hamer, Klavier Translation: Last Spring Once more I got to see winter fleeing before the spring; the bird cherry with branches covered by blossoms I once more saw blooming. Once more I got to see the ice floating from land the snow softening and the waterfall into the river cascading and breaking. The green gras I once again got to behold with blooms. Still I heard the springtime bird sing in the sun and in summer. Once by myself in the springtime haze which sates my eye, sometime there I will find me a home and swim and bathe. Everything that spring greeted me with, and the bloom I plucked, I thought it to be the spirits of the forefathers that danced and sighed. Therefore I found between birches and conifers a riddle in spring. Therefore the sound of the flute that I carved seemed to be weeping.