Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme. He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, with titles translating as "The Angel", "Be still!", "In the Greenhouse", "Sorrows" and "Dreams", while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs, together with the Siegfried Idyll, are the two non-operatic works by Wagner most regularly performed.
History
The songs are settings of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Richard Wagner's patrons. Wagner had become acquainted with Otto Wesendonck in Zurich, where he had fled on his escape from Saxony after the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849. For a time Wagner and his wife Minna lived together in the Asyl (German for Asylum in the sense of "sanctuary"), a small cottage on the Wesendonck estate. It is sometimes claimed that Wagner and Mathilde had a love affair; in any case, the situation and mutual infatuation certainly contributed to the intensity in the conception of Tristan und Isolde.
Stand Still is live album by The Stone Roses that was recorded in October 1989 in Tokyo. It is an unofficial, bootleg recording.
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by Spiritual Beggars
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by Nivea
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by Lame Ducks
Look Back
by: Spiritual BeggarsLook back
I never look back
No underhanded lies, better look me in the eyes
Speak the truth if you're still my friend
?Cause I won?t be fooled by any calculated tries
Better change your plan or take your final bow
Oh, look back
I never look back
To make me stick around, you have to compromise
It?s a give and take, you gotta share the crown
?Cause I won?t be hooked by any mystifying lines
Watch me stand alone like I always have
Oh, look back
I never look back
Look back
I never look back
Look back
I never look back
Look back
I never look back
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