Live performance at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels on 3 June 2012 orchestra: Le Concert d'Anvers conductor: Bart Van Reyn soprano: Ida Falk Winland tenor: Yves Saelens more info: www.octopusensembles.be CAVATINA Hannah (soprano): Light and life are now enfeebled, warmth and joy have disappeared. Ill-humoured days are followed by long dark nights. RECITATIVE Lucas (tenor): The lake's expanse is gripped in ice, the current of the stream is stemmed. Suspended from the towering cliffs, the waterfall hangs motionless and silent. In the leafless woods no sound is heard. A monstrous covering of snow blankets the fields and fills the vales. Earth's aspect is that of a tomb, where strength and grace lie dead, where sad corpse-colours predominate, and where, on every side, the gaze falls only upon barren wasteland.