Beautiful, But You Wish You Knew What It Is

here is finally the last fragment of the journey...
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
hope you enjoy

fragments of a journey #6

drift

fields of forever (lo-fi remix)

RV.541 - 2 Grave (Antonio Lucio Vivaldi)

The Journey

Holiday Reverence

you are my joy

Many thanks to vent d’ouest (Henri) for adding his beautiful lyrics to my original piano composition and transforming it into a lovely ambient arrangement.  He writes and produces wonderfully creative music with poetic lyrics, which you can hear on his SoundCloud page.  

For Henri's lyrics (in French and English), see below.  

A Time to Reflect

Sur le Pont des Soupirs
Par un beau soir d’été
Un sourire a suffi
à noyer les regrets

Sous le Pont Mirabeau
Avec Apollinaire
On a vu l’avenir
Enjamber le passé

Alors on a repris
Les routes traversières
En rêvant de gondole
Sous un ciel de Turner

L’automne bénissant
Le long baiser d’hiver
Le printemps finissant
Sur la Seine éphémère

Lassé des guerres lasses
Et des soifs de pouvoir
Garde du temps qui passe
Ce que te dit le Soir :
« Ce qu’il te faut chérir
Ce qu’il te faut garder
Un temps pour réfléchir
Tout le temps pour s’aimer. ».
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A Time to Reflect

On the Bridge of Sighs
On a beautiful summer evening
A smile was enough
to drown regrets

Under the Mirabeau Bridge
With Apollinaire
We saw the future
Straddling the past

So we resumed
Crossing roads
Dreaming of a gondola
Under a Turner Sky

The Blessing Autumn
The Long Winter Kiss
Spring is coming to an end
On the ephemeral Seine

Tired of wars, weary
And lusts for power
Keeping up with the passing of time
What Le Soir tells you:
"What you should cherish
What to keep
A time to reflect
All the time to love . ».

Henri Elie (November 24, 2025)
For the music of Francess Harris

A Time to Reflect  (version chantée)

Unravelling

The Artist

The touching Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is perhaps the most famous version of the Stabat Mater, a cycle of songs about Virgin Mary. The final number he wrote when he was on his deathbed (1736). Pergolesi had in fact very dangerous TBC which was caused that he died at the age of 26. The master of the Italian Baroque chose an intimate composition: soprano, alto, two violins, viola and continuo. The moving Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with Olga Zinovieva and Sytse Buwalda.

Pergolesi Stabat Mater - nr.2 Cuius Animam Gementem

Time is different in music.
 Close and friendly it is drifting by
sometimes flying, sometimes even 
standing still, but never passing. 
Nothing gets lost – the first tone 
is not older than the last one.

All music is child of its time, but not bound by time. 
It arises from moments and lives in people.  
Listening to music you make it your own.

My name is Jens Felger and I live in the southwest of Germany.
I'm a composer, guitarist & music teacher.
I love music of nearly every style and I live music whenever I can.
Creating & listening to music is my elixir of life.
The classical guitar is my musical base camp and at the moment 
I'm concentrated on creating music for this instrument. 
I'm not focussed on a specific style but I can't deny my classical background.

recently I had the great honour of being soundclouder of the day
http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/55093681730/soundcloud-of-the-day-jens-felger-jens-felger

Sharing music and the emotions within on social networks gives me a peace I've never expected. Being part of this amazing & inspiring community on soundcloud changes the way I hear music, I feel music and influences the way I create music. Thanks to all of you for your fantastic support, this means a lot to me.

fragments of a journey #6

jensfelger