From the lark to the nightingale

Okay, we’re going to take a bit of a turn for today’s earworm. A turn to imperial Vienna, where in 1882 Johann Strauss the Younger wrote an orchestral waltz celebrating Spring. “Frühlingsstimmen” (“Voices of Spring”) actually sounds to me like a frolic in a green field, and that’s even without the coloratura soprano added in.

(I find it rather amusing that the first soprano to sing it was Bertha Schwartz, whose stage name was Bianca Bianchi.)

Here we’ve got Kathleen Battle singing it. Open your windows and let this flow all around you.

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