Pope Benedict XVI Words at the End of the Concert in His Honour Held, in Castel Gandolfo

(August 25, 2008) Pope Benedict XVI spent some relaxed moments on Sunday evening at 6.00 pm in the Swiss Hall of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo where a concert was held in his honour. Yvonne Timoianu was at the violin cello and Christoph Cornaro at the piano followed the "Winter Journey" by Franz Schubert with the lyrics composed by Wilhelm Müller. The two musicians brought the work that the Austrian composer who wrote the texts of 24 poems of the German writer While greeting the persons present the Pope appreciated the talents of the two musicians with grateful admiration of their talents. Thanks to their masterly execution, he said he was able to enjoy the wealth of varied musical language that characterizes songs proposed. He recalled his knowledge of Mr. Cornaro from the period when he was Ambassador of Austria to the Holy See and now he was very happy to find him as pianist. This concert said the Holy Father gave an opportunity to see the winning combination of poetry by Wilhelm Müller to the music of Franz Schubert in warm melody. They are indeed beyond the six hundred songs that Schubert left us a person who was a great composer who truly understood his contemporaries and honours the European civilization and the great catholic and Christian culture and spirituality.