F. Schubert: "Der Wanderer" in A minor (Sava Vemić)

The Walker is silent and unhappy. He asks himself constantly: WHERE? Where to go, where are my people, where is my loving land? In the end, he receives an answer: “There, where you are not, is happiness!” F. Schubert: Der Wanderer, op. 4/1 D489 (Text: Schmidt v. Lübeck) Bass: Sava Vemić Piano: Ekaterina Tarnopolskaya Audio: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz From the Song recital in Foyer of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz on February 22, 2022. "The Wanderer" English Translation © Richard Wigmore I come from the mountains; the valley steams, the ocean roars. I wander, silent and joyless, and my sighs for ever ask: Where? Here the sun seems so cold, the blossom faded, life old, and men’s words mere hollow noise; I am a stranger everywhere. Where are you, my beloved land? Sought, dreamt of, yet never known! The land so green with hope, the land where my roses bloom, where my friends walk, where my dead ones rise again, the land that speaks my tongue, O land, where are you? I wander, silent and joyless, and my sighs for ever ask: Where? In a ghostly whisper the answer comes: ‘There, where you are not, is happiness!’