Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - FOUR LAST SONGS

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  • Richard Strauss.
    FOUR LAST SONGS.
    Spring.
    September.
    Going to Sleep (Poems by Hermann Hesse).
    In the Glow of Evening (Poem by Joseph von Eichendorff).
    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano.
    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    George Szell.
    From Angel LP first published 1966.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 572

  • @circaaeon5032
    @circaaeon5032 7 років тому +316

    Richard Strauss saved my Grandfather's life !! My Grandfather - Jascha Spivakovsky - was a prominent Jewish concert pianist in Germany in the year before Hitler came to power and friends with Strauss. Strauss found out my Grandfather was on a Nazi hit-list and warned him using a musically-coded note. Were it not for that, my Grandfather would have been assassinated, but instead he left Germany just in time and went to Australia where I was eventually born. Thank you Mr.Strauss for saving my Grandfather's life !! Strauss wasn't just a great composer, he was also a good man !!

    • @TheELectricStylez
      @TheELectricStylez 6 років тому +4

      wow!

    • @ciupenhauer
      @ciupenhauer 4 роки тому +10

      we know he saved a lot of jewish lives, but this story kind of seems made up, sry

    • @pinklacelady
      @pinklacelady 4 роки тому +11

      @@ciupenhauer nope, there are many stories like this that are true.

    • @lauremeunier9280
      @lauremeunier9280 4 роки тому +3

      This is a moving story which is very consistent with what we may perceive as Richard Strauss's sensitiveness.

    • @javierborda8684
      @javierborda8684 3 роки тому

      What was the musical code he used?

  • @tucu2
    @tucu2 2 роки тому +11

    Bis heute bleibt Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DER Maßstab für die Interpretation des Strauss'schen opus ultimum, und nicht nur dessen. Großartig!

  • @laurapipe9942
    @laurapipe9942 15 днів тому +1

    David lynchs wild at heart made me find this incredible piece of music

  • @MrRumpwrestler
    @MrRumpwrestler 11 років тому +58

    I remember hearing this marvelous work with Schwarzkopf in San Francisco so many years ago.... so powerful, I had to leave the theater... in tears.

  • @cawag98
    @cawag98 8 років тому +253

    I played this for my father in his last hours in hospital.

    • @donbenham1
      @donbenham1 6 років тому +11

      Love

    • @dissilymordentroge5818
      @dissilymordentroge5818 5 років тому +22

      I’m hoping someone does that for me or at least plays Kathleen Ferrier’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ .Maybe both if I survived the first.

    • @rosemaryrodricks5867
      @rosemaryrodricks5867 5 років тому +1

      cawag98 a

    • @keithvallencourt7901
      @keithvallencourt7901 5 років тому +17

      @cawag98 - This is what my father, a former opera singer, requested in his last hours, too...

    • @flemmingdalsgaard3231
      @flemmingdalsgaard3231 4 роки тому +13

      A beautiful choice. This music is about accepting that life has an end.

  • @RichardFeynmanRules
    @RichardFeynmanRules 4 роки тому +34

    This glorious music was balm to my soul this morning. There are many fabulous recordings of this sublime work by Strauss, but Schwarzkopf's interpretation/recording has remained at the top for me through the decades. Yes, there are some vocalists with "better" or more "operatic" voices, there are later recordings with better recording sonics, but the sensitivity, poetic enunciation, and soulfulness of Schwarzkopf's interpretation sings to my heart as no other does. The fourth and last song always breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @tonilodder7255
    @tonilodder7255 4 роки тому +76

    This is all about being born and die, devastating song, simply the best. Elisabeth Scharzkopf. Well, I will soon die of cancer, but this will give me, and my beloved ones great consolution. Txs Strauss and Elisabeth!

    • @user-kj2hr7fm4f
      @user-kj2hr7fm4f 3 роки тому +9

      Bro you live? 🥴

    • @lenaxo8260
      @lenaxo8260 3 роки тому +4

      @@user-kj2hr7fm4f rude.

    • @Bu-bo-Bu-bo
      @Bu-bo-Bu-bo 3 роки тому +3

      @@user-kj2hr7fm4f Well if this can help you, his playlist has been updated last 5 days ago. So maybe some luck, and good medications kept him alive. I prefer to think this than something else !

    • @user-kj2hr7fm4f
      @user-kj2hr7fm4f 3 роки тому +1

      @@Bu-bo-Bu-bo heh good. Austrian grandpa is still alive

    • @wormswithteeth
      @wormswithteeth 26 днів тому

      *Hello this is your yearly check up. Are you there?*

  • @RodolfoLimacbx
    @RodolfoLimacbx 8 років тому +101

    00:00 - "Frühling" (Spring)
    03:46 - "September"
    09:10 - "Beim Schlafengehen" (When Falling Asleep)
    14:36 - "Im Abendrot" (At Sunset)

  • @douglasandrewtown
    @douglasandrewtown 10 років тому +53

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf understands this music as no other singer has done.

  • @roberthowes7827
    @roberthowes7827 8 років тому +39

    The incomparable quality of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, as a lieder singer the best in the world. Richard Strauss must have been pleased.

    • @remixuereb
      @remixuereb 7 років тому +4

      Incomparable rencontre de deux excellents artistes , celle de Richard Strauss et de son interprète idéale , feu Elisabeth Schwarzkopf d'une voie puissante autant aigüe que délicate et nuancée .

    • @vjkumar2006
      @vjkumar2006 7 років тому

      ryrq

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 років тому +1

      She might have met the composer.

  • @ihopetowin
    @ihopetowin 9 років тому +21

    If you listen only to one recording of the Four Last Songs, this is the one, a superlative interpretation.

  • @laxano45
    @laxano45 9 років тому +25

    people wake up with this magnificent music and maybe, just maybe there will be hope for us

  • @estherszalay3898
    @estherszalay3898 10 років тому +22

    Thank you! Gift from Heaven is her voice!

  • @mccarlson52
    @mccarlson52 7 років тому +78

    I played these all day long for my partner Charlie as he lay dying. He loved these songs so much, and I knew they would bring him comfort in his last hours.

    • @tomhoobler6686
      @tomhoobler6686 4 роки тому +3

      Bless You

    • @jorgbirmelin1547
      @jorgbirmelin1547 4 роки тому +3

      Ergriffen...bewegt...ich wünsche dir, dass die Trauer geht und die Erinnerung an deinen Partner bleibt...Jörg

    • @johng4227
      @johng4227 3 роки тому +2

      good man, sorry for your loss

    • @mccarlson52
      @mccarlson52 3 роки тому +1

      @@johng4227 Thank you!

    • @betsydog0120
      @betsydog0120 3 роки тому +2

      I am so sorry for your loss! My partner died 3 years ago. He introduced me to Schwarzkopf recordings when I was 24, young singer at the beginning of my career....

  • @bkrav1847
    @bkrav1847 7 років тому +16

    There is no more beautiful music than that.

  • @CoyLadyDDL
    @CoyLadyDDL 10 років тому +39

    Schwarzkopf owns this Strauss piece! Beautiful!

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 3 роки тому

      I disagree, but respect your choice. It's Jessye Norman for me.

    • @debl601
      @debl601 3 роки тому

      @Sam Stone I didn't realize the connection with EMI studios so thank you for the information and recommendation. I'll listen to Elsa's Dream shortly.

    • @graemedurie9094
      @graemedurie9094 3 роки тому

      @@MOGGS1942 Yes - this account is magnificent, but for my money, the Jessye Norman is better.

  • @peterzagar2742
    @peterzagar2742 10 років тому +47

    The first time I heard Four Last Songs, it was on the radio, I didn’t know what I was listening to, but I was hypnotised. It was this performance. Both the soloist and the orchestra are beyond comparison, a class of their own!

    • @georgelocke9523
      @georgelocke9523 4 роки тому +3

      Peter Zagar : Same with me. And I first heard “Eine Alpensinfonie” on the radio the first time also. I was blown away with both works. “What the hell IS that??”

    • @flemmingdalsgaard3231
      @flemmingdalsgaard3231 4 роки тому

      Exactly the same happened to me!

    • @renodet
      @renodet 3 роки тому +1

      @@georgelocke9523 An Alpine Symphony moves me to tears every time I listen to it -- I can't believe such beautiful music exists!

  • @pablov1973
    @pablov1973 8 років тому +65

    Every time I listen this song, I end full of tears. This recording is my favorite.

  • @trevor383
    @trevor383 10 років тому +68

    When I despair of the madness and stupidity prevalent in this world I listen to this and think maybe, just maybe, there is hope for humanity after all.

  • @pereiraj-charles9718
    @pereiraj-charles9718 9 років тому +5

    Comment ne pas fondre de bonheur en écoutant ce monuments de la musique classique .
    Bonheur renouvelé a chaque écoute et presque a chaque foi une larme d'émotion perle a mes yeux même si je ne comprend pas les paroles .Merci monsieur Richard Strauss !!!

  • @jdeeside5021
    @jdeeside5021 7 років тому +12

    She embodies everything an artist requires to make this THE interpretation of these gorgeous songs.

  • @pattipage2122
    @pattipage2122 9 років тому +10

    So beautiful, still gives me goosebumps after all these years.

  • @1954surya
    @1954surya 7 років тому +2

    Der Zauber bleibt ungebrochen. Absolute Schönheit. Wahr und gut. Ewiger Moment, ein unvergänglicher Augenblick.

  • @luna47662
    @luna47662 9 років тому +8

    Grandioso Strauss! Ascoltare i 4 lieder è come cavalcare le nuvole insieme ad un Angelo invisibile ed una schiera di rondini, aironi, cicogne e qualsiasi altra creatura finalmente libera di oltrepassare qualsiasi confine umano!

  • @chanoides
    @chanoides 10 років тому +23

    Listening in far-off Australia.. Saw her many times in 60,s Now it is time to die.. Heaven can not possibly be better than this... No No !!!! Not even you Birgit,, great as you are

    • @tomrobey2962
      @tomrobey2962 5 років тому +2

      Are you still dying?

    • @wormswithteeth
      @wormswithteeth 4 роки тому +1

      Hope your still alive to hear this once more...

  • @byunghoonnoh5141
    @byunghoonnoh5141 10 років тому +25

    It looks like these songs were composed for Schwarzkopf.
    When I first heard her song on the radio in 1978,I was deeply moved by her song's grace and nobility.

    • @adelaidefrance9026
      @adelaidefrance9026 6 років тому

      I discoverd these marvellous songs twenty years further!!nevertheless,i do love song by ES and nobody else!!such a merveille!!

    • @hrh2842
      @hrh2842 5 років тому +2

      Strauss wanted Flagstad to sing the premier, and she did in 1950 in London. The manuscript to a fifth song was owned by Maria Jeritza who kept it in her safe during her lifetime. "Malven" was premiered just a few years ago by Eva Marton. Have not heard of it being added to the previous four, that were published by Strauss' friend Ernst Roth.

  • @Kyleinasailing
    @Kyleinasailing 6 років тому +13

    Open a bottle of red, put your feet on the table and close your eyes - just fabulous

  • @meredith218461
    @meredith218461 11 років тому +9

    For me the definitive interpretation of these valedictory masterpieces.

  • @mauriziogagliardi6189
    @mauriziogagliardi6189 3 роки тому +3

    possiedo questo disco in vinile e cd che mi fu consigliato dal proprietario di un negozio di dischi di Roma. ascoltarlo è ogni volta un piacere immenso per la qualità della musica di Strauss ma principalmente per la sublime interpretazione della Schwarzkopf che mi ammalia .

  • @Kaiser-wc1bo
    @Kaiser-wc1bo 7 років тому +5

    Vor allem hinsichtlich der Aussprache der deutschen Konsonanten ist ihr Gesang bis jetzt unvergleichlich schön ! !

  • @TedWms521
    @TedWms521 3 роки тому +21

    The "Last Four Songs" gets my vote as the most beautiful music of the 20th century. Forced to choose the best rendition, I'd pick Schwarzkopf's but these wonderful songs evoke moving performances by many others.

    • @passerineblue
      @passerineblue Рік тому +1

      Jesse Norman's is the best, I think. I like Elizabeth, but she sounds reedy next to Jessye.

    • @eastgermanautos
      @eastgermanautos Рік тому +2

      @@passerineblue I have listened to them both often. Like both. I grew up on Norman, but have to say that if one's preference if for a more unornamented, crisp rendition, then Schwarzkopf gets it. Schwarzkopf's is closer chronologically to the work itself (1949), while Norman creates her own epoch, it seems to me, with that particular effort

    • @Harry-sq4nl
      @Harry-sq4nl Рік тому +4

      I have listened to Schwarzkopf sing this most beautiful music since I was 16 (now 83) and never failed to be moved to my depths every time.

  • @PrincessZerlina
    @PrincessZerlina 10 років тому +14

    Happy 150th bday, Richard Strauss

  • @ThousandShakes
    @ThousandShakes 6 років тому +6

    My parents would blast this, what memories. Dad died at sunrise three weeks ago, at home, on one of those sunny, calm, cold winter mornings when the birds are all on the wing. We played Mahler's Adagietto however.

  • @novsun7317
    @novsun7317 8 років тому +14

    can't get over this

  • @9SmartSand6
    @9SmartSand6 4 роки тому +6

    I used to use Schwarzkopf and Kiri Te Kanawa singing Beim Schlafengehen to test, and to demo, audio equipment I designed, in A/B comparisons at clients' homes, against high-end gear they owned. Worked like a charm....and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Decades before the whole 'ASMR' meme became popular. We called it an 'eargasm'.

  • @MADScientists4040
    @MADScientists4040 10 років тому +12

    Simply inspired.
    A work from the heavens.

  • @sgplus3
    @sgplus3 9 років тому +22

    I am blessed to be alive to hear this grace and nobility - it makes makes me feel proud to be human. Thank you Elizabeth.

    • @wetering777
      @wetering777 9 років тому

      Stephanie Genis what an unbelievable stupid statement. So you need an utterly stupid woman in your life to feel alive? HAHAHAHA how petatic and poor. What a poverty. Was a good singer indeed, but does that make you intelligent? In any case not you hahahahahahahahaha

    • @davidgantsweg6653
      @davidgantsweg6653 9 років тому +3

      joseph frank
      Whay you said makes you a moron and a poor excuse for a human being, Joseph. You are pathetic for saying such a thing whether or not you believe it. STFU and go live under a rock. Oh, and have a nice day.

    • @wetering777
      @wetering777 9 років тому

      David Gantsweg I am used to utterly stupid people of whom you are one.Talking about a poor excuse,.....you mean your life? Dont make me laugh louder than I already do. Your stupidity is boundless.

    • @wetering777
      @wetering777 9 років тому +3

      David Gantsweg Sorry that I forgot to tell you that you are clearly brain death. But I thought you knew already.

    • @alancrabb
      @alancrabb 8 років тому

      +Stephanie Genis : You - we - are indeed blessed. This is a pinnacle of human creativity and artistry.

  • @12max14
    @12max14 7 років тому +74

    0:00 Frühling - Spring - Printemps
    3:41 September
    9:06 Beim Schlafengehen - Going to sleep - L'heure du sommei
    14:32 Im Abendrot - At sunset - Au crépuscule

  • @MalisandreFeline
    @MalisandreFeline 3 роки тому +7

    Quelle magnifique oeuvre ! Et cette voix superbe vous transporte dans la beauté que la musique nous fait entrevoir!!

  • @frankporter6169
    @frankporter6169 8 років тому +154

    After 50 years this is still by far my favorite interpretation of these songs. Norman is fine but for my ears "too loud" and direct. Kiri Te Kanawa has a lovely voice that is honest and frank. Schwarzkopf brings a subtlety but maintains that timeless German feeling and depth. Thank you for placing this on You Tube.

    • @IvanGreindl
      @IvanGreindl 5 років тому +6

      I'm entirely agreeding with your opinion...

    • @CMI2017
      @CMI2017 5 років тому +1

      Stimmt.

    • @iakovosarvanitis8812
      @iakovosarvanitis8812 5 років тому +1

      ΚΑΘΕ ΜΙΑ ΕΧΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΧΑΡΗ ΤΗΣ !!!!!!!!!!

    • @hughcapetien
      @hughcapetien 5 років тому +3

      I love them all: Kanawa, Schwarzkopf, Popp, Fleming, Norman - they were the best!@Paul James

    • @jasonhurd4379
      @jasonhurd4379 5 років тому +4

      @@hughcapetien There are also less well known but equally fine renditions by Arleen Auger, Heather Harper, Felicity Lott and Anja Harteros.

  • @HelenaWilliams8696
    @HelenaWilliams8696 9 років тому +6

    Outstanding Soprano. Very pleasant and beautiful arias. Fantastic Strauss Music.

  • @ledidany70
    @ledidany70 10 років тому +9

    Bravissima, interpretazione stupefacente!!!

  • @brunoalbrecht5827
    @brunoalbrecht5827 3 роки тому +6

    Beautifully interpreted! Orchestration of these songs is some of Richard Strauss' most wonderful music.

  • @johnlecheminant4493
    @johnlecheminant4493 6 років тому +5

    the most moving & beautiful music I have heard.It brings me to tears

  • @garyblais8602
    @garyblais8602 Рік тому +2

    A superb recording Elisabeth and Szell due the world great justice . Brava Schwarzkopf.

  • @edwardnah4718
    @edwardnah4718 5 років тому +4

    George Szell - how he could sound orchestration of this music, fantastic!!! Absolutely sensitive drawing of this music!!!

  • @MrRichygm
    @MrRichygm 6 років тому +5

    Many outstanding singers have performed these masterpieces, but here the outstanding comes up against the incomparable.

  • @davidsuratgar7278
    @davidsuratgar7278 11 місяців тому +3

    Sublime and certainly divine and the music to die hearing!

  • @sleort42
    @sleort42 9 років тому +91

    I hope that I can bring these four songs with me when I leave this World. Upwards or downwards ------ if only I can hear this beautiful music.

    • @hugodegaris4054
      @hugodegaris4054 7 років тому +1

      You isscienate fairy. When you die, youre no longer a conscious being able to enjoy any music, nor anything at all, because youre DEAD!

    • @gallitube
      @gallitube 7 років тому +10

      You horrid troll. Were you born without imagination or did you lose it gradually as you were abused?

    • @12max14
      @12max14 7 років тому +3

      Hugo, i don't hope you will leave this world one day with empty hands.
      Troels will take them with him, i'm sure.

    • @ronaldjas3471
      @ronaldjas3471 7 років тому +1

      Troels Varming disgusting comment, shame on you.

    • @mannail888
      @mannail888 7 років тому +1

      Shame on you.

  • @pedroa.cantero9449
    @pedroa.cantero9449 10 років тому +57

    A los 21 años escuché a Elisabeth Schwarzkopf cantar Vier letzte lieder y sentí mi cuerpo entero vibrar en aquella llamada que Strauss nos dejara como última ofrenda. ¡Qué mejor legado! ¡Qué mejor interpretación! Hoy la recibo más que un recuerdo como dádiva renovada “Ahora te muestras/ en tu esplendor y atavío,/ inundada de luz/ ante mi, como un milagro”. Gracias sean dadas por escuchar de nuevo el canto último en la esperanza de que pronto llegue el remanso y se apaguen las candilejas de este escenario para yacer en el silencio. Ya no vibra mi cuerpo pero mi alma siente la urgencia de esa luz que no es otra que el fulgor que precede al apagón final.

  • @richardmackay4369
    @richardmackay4369 3 роки тому +2

    What a wonderful catalogue of listeners comments! Perfect complement to the adorable Schwarzkopf!

  • @wspeter9030
    @wspeter9030 2 роки тому +2

    That’s the highest music what was ever found on Earth!

  • @jimcrawford5039
    @jimcrawford5039 2 роки тому +2

    I was unaware of this disc with the great Szell conducting. It is just marvellous. Schwarzkopf is at her finest and right near the end of her career too!

  • @javierborda8684
    @javierborda8684 3 роки тому +4

    Harmonies are just mind blowing.

  • @roelfromgroningen
    @roelfromgroningen 4 роки тому +7

    The voice is velvet. Most beautiful music ever written among other music off course. if there is an existens of heaven this music is the evidence!

    • @golden-63
      @golden-63 4 роки тому

      Velvet?!? It's small, the and brittle. Very dry sounding.

  • @geanarsa
    @geanarsa 6 років тому +7

    Drops of celestial love condensed in etheric tones. Tones that caress my soul, cure it, sweeten it, fill it with peace and gratitude.

  • @IvanGreindl
    @IvanGreindl 10 років тому +17

    The *purest* interpretation without any doubt, since the creation -- by K. Flagstad --, of these marvelous lieder. Still today, listening to them is the same enchantment since my (distant) youth...
    On her very last performance of the "4 letzte Lieder" (september 1970, at the Brussels' Opera de la Monnaie), she accompanied Jorge Dönn, the star dancer of the "Ballets du XXe siècle", on a Maurice Béjart choreography, "Serait-ce la Mort ?". Un-for-get-table!

    • @Fritz_Maisenbacher
      @Fritz_Maisenbacher 9 років тому +3

      16:13 the most utterly beautiful and at the same time dangerous music I know ..... not for (my) children ......

    • @drbarbarabaker
      @drbarbarabaker 4 роки тому +1

      The premier performance of these songs was by Kirsten Flagstad.

  • @PaulJones-oj4kr
    @PaulJones-oj4kr 8 років тому +16

    this is just totally ravishing music making by Schwartzkopf and Szell.......these readings set the standard of depth and sensitivty before which all pretenders genuflect in perfect reverence.

  • @bronxboy47
    @bronxboy47 4 роки тому +8

    This album was my introduction to Strauss's 4 Last Songs. It was given to me by a neighbor as a housewarming gift on my first night in my first apartment. I didn't speak a word of German at the time. 2 years later I was majoring in German Language and Literature.

  • @ezracheney5435
    @ezracheney5435 10 років тому +15

    She is the best among all sopranos who have sung these four.
    Understanding the poetry and mood will be the key to deliver.

  • @jatriggs
    @jatriggs 11 років тому +7

    Best interpretation - yes! Of a wonderful masterpiece!

  • @drbarbarabaker
    @drbarbarabaker 7 років тому +7

    Listen for how she carries the phrase from one segment to another, across the breath, even when the breaks are quite long.

  • @gab-sk5sz
    @gab-sk5sz Рік тому +3

    Simply incredible!

  • @jogejoge11
    @jogejoge11 11 років тому +3

    The best singer of our era.
    I get chilllllls over all of my body just listening the control, interpretation and finesse of her technique.
    Thank you for posting this recordings.

  • @MutantsInDisguise
    @MutantsInDisguise 2 роки тому +1

    Fantastic rendition of Richard Strauss' swam song. I know which music to be played when I die .

  • @rath7948
    @rath7948 Рік тому +1

    The greatest version I have ever heard.

  • @alainflaux870
    @alainflaux870 2 роки тому +1

    La grâce et la beauté la pureté à l’état pur.un merci à jamais et pour toujours MADAME

  • @LatteLoverNo1
    @LatteLoverNo1 12 років тому +13

    I grew up listening to Elisabeth Scharzkopf singing the Four Last Songs, and saw her perform them with the Seattle Symphony in the old Orpheum Theatre in downtown Seattle. I adored her on the recording, and fell in love with her when I saw her perform. I'm so grateful that you posted this on UA-cam. Thank you.

  • @byunghoonnoh5141
    @byunghoonnoh5141 10 років тому +6

    I don't know German. But whenever I listen to her German lyric songs,
    I'm amazed at her German dicion,pronunciation and emotion.

    • @gregzeck9845
      @gregzeck9845 9 років тому +2

      Well, she's German, you know!

    • @stevetutty2818
      @stevetutty2818 3 роки тому +1

      @@gregzeck9845 you missed the point!

  • @jdeeside5021
    @jdeeside5021 6 років тому +3

    A lifetime of experience and understanding; a unique but instantly recognisable interpretation. It’s divine.

  • @holyfox94
    @holyfox94 2 роки тому +2

    As teenager, under the irritating spell of hormones, I preferred Jessye Normans interpretation.
    But now, as a grown up women, it’s Frau Schwarzkopf.
    Thank god, things settle down and get calmer the older one gets🙏🏻

  • @user-dm5lm5rx2m
    @user-dm5lm5rx2m Місяць тому

    Splendida interprete, perfetto direttore d'orchestra, grande compositore; grazie!!!

  • @davy91101
    @davy91101 9 років тому +12

    This was the second recording that ES made; a third was released as an anniversary issue, a live performance. My own preference is this taping in which the artists admits to having transposed some of the vocal lines. No matter as her total involvement in the text is supreme and resources have been husbanded so that the total effect is supreme. I adore this singer and was lucky enough to have seen her in Mozart and Strauss roles which she retained as she shifted her main activities to the recital stage. A great artist.

    • @richardmalton2995
      @richardmalton2995 9 років тому +2

      My god...thank you; the first person I've ever come across who noticed Fruhling was in B minor instead of C minor. It's a real shame, as it thickens the orchestration a little, & as a soprano she really should have no trouble with any of the songs. Still, no-one sung them quite like she did, though her recording with Ackermann, whilst in mono, is even better.

  • @niallmorris9151
    @niallmorris9151 8 років тому +6

    exquisite and beyond all others.

  • @jeanenry
    @jeanenry 5 років тому +2

    Well done Konstantinos, you recognize the divine, and she was that. This was her her greatest recording in my mind. I visited Aldeburgh several times where she held classes. but never saw her. She belongs in Elysium which is where I always see her, thank you.

  • @kevinlax9659
    @kevinlax9659 10 років тому +5

    In the Glow of the Evening...so beautiful. Lovely voice. Thanks for sharing :)

  • @claim2game027
    @claim2game027 5 років тому +14

    0:00 *Frühling* _(Hermann Hesse)_
    In dämmrigen Grüften
    Träumte ich lang
    Von deinen Bäumen und blauen Lüften,
    Von deinem Duft und Vogelsang.
    Nun liegst du erschlossen
    In Gleiß und Zier,
    Von Licht übergossen
    Wie ein Wunder vor mir.
    Du kennst mich wieder,
    Du lockst mich zart,
    Es zittert durch all meine Glieder
    Deine selige Gegenwart.
    ---
    3:41 *September* _(Hermann Hesse)_
    Der Garten trauert,
    kühl sinkt in die Blumen der Regen.
    Der Sommer schauert
    still seinem Ende entgegen.
    Golden tropft Blatt um Blatt
    nieder vom hohen Akazienbaum.
    Sommer lächelt erstaunt und matt
    in den sterbenden Gartentraum.
    Lange noch bei den Rosen
    bleibt er stehen, sehnt sich nach Ruh.
    Langsam tut er die großen
    müdgewordnen Augen zu.
    ---
    9:06 *Beim Schlafengehen* _(Hermann Hesse)_
    Nun der Tag mich müd gemacht,
    soll mein sehnliches Verlangen
    freundlich die gestirnte Nacht
    wie ein müdes Kind empfangen.
    Hände, laßt von allem Tun,
    Stirn, vergiß du alles Denken,
    alle meine Sinne nun
    wollen sich in Schlummer senken.
    Und die Seele unbewacht
    will in freien Flügen schweben,
    um im Zauberkreis der Nacht
    tief und tausendfach zu leben.
    ---
    14:32 *Im Abendrot* _(Joseph von Eichendorff)_
    Wir sind durch Not und Freude
    gegangen Hand in Hand;
    vom Wandern ruhen wir beide
    nun überm stillen Land.
    Rings sich die Täler neigen,
    es dunkelt schon die Luft.
    Zwei Lerchen nur noch steigen
    nachträumend in den Duft.
    Tritt her und lass sie schwirren,
    bald ist es Schlafenszeit.
    Dass wir uns nicht verirren
    in dieser Einsamkeit.
    O weiter, stiller Friede!
    So tief im Abendrot.
    Wie sind wir wandermüde--
    Ist dies etwa der Tod?

    • @claim2game027
      @claim2game027 5 років тому

      *Frühling* / _Primavera_
      Em escuras criptas
      Há muito sonhei
      Com as tuas árvores e ares azulados,
      Com o teu aroma e o canto das aves.
      Agora jazes revelada,
      Em esplendor e glória,
      Transbordante de luz,
      Como um milagre ante a mim.
      Tu me conheces ainda,
      Seduzes-me ternamente,
      Vibra em todo o meu corpo
      A tua presença bendita!

    • @claim2game027
      @claim2game027 5 років тому

      *September* / _Setembro_
      O jardim está de luto,
      A chuva fria cai sobre as flores.
      O verão estremece
      silenciosamente para o seu fim.
      Folhas douradas, uma a uma, caem
      da elevada acácia.
      O verão sorri, surpreso e pálido
      no sonho do jardim moribundo.
      Por um longo tempo, junto das rosas
      ele para, ansiando por paz.
      E lentamente fecha os grandes
      e cansados olhos.

    • @claim2game027
      @claim2game027 5 років тому

      *Beim Schlafengehen* / _Ao deitar_
      Agora que o dia me deixou cansado,
      O meu desejo ardente
      Receberá amistoso a estrelada noite
      Como uma criança cansada.
      Mãos, cessai toda atividade,
      Fronte, esquece todo pensamento,
      Todos os meus sentidos agora
      Querem se afundar neste torpor.
      E a alma indefesa
      quer em livres voos elevar-se,
      para no círculo mágico da noite,
      profunda e múltipla, viver.

    • @claim2game027
      @claim2game027 5 років тому

      *Im Abendrot* / _Arrebol_
      Por aflições e alegrias
      Passamos de mãos dadas;
      Do vagar descansamos ambos
      Agora sobre a terra silente.
      Ao redor os vales se inclinam,
      já se escurece o ar.
      Só duas cotovias ainda se levantam,
      Como um sonho, no ar perfumado.
      Achega-te, e deixa-as ruflarem,
      logo é hora de dormir -
      Não nos percamos
      Nesta solidão.
      Ó vasta, tranquila paz!
      Tão profunda no arrebol.
      Quão cansados estamos de vagar -
      Será isto talvez a morte?

    • @arnoldamaral7406
      @arnoldamaral7406 5 років тому +2

      Ma theus DANKE!☝☝☝🌏🌎🌍😊😢😘

  • @toenoek
    @toenoek 12 років тому +4

    The best interpretation ever.
    Thanks for posting.

  • @johnprasad326
    @johnprasad326 6 років тому +7

    Schwarzkopf also does an amazing Marschlin in Der Rosenkavelier.

  • @chanoides
    @chanoides 10 років тому +3

    surely the greatest liric soprano of all time, with all respects to the 2 closest to her,.... Vickie de l and eliz. schumman repeat, for us who SAW singing in the 50,s/60,s, time to die.!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @lochfc
    @lochfc 11 років тому +1

    No comparison the best. She simply owns these ravishing songs. The control of voice colour is unsurpassed.

  • @patriciapaape9238
    @patriciapaape9238 3 роки тому +2

    Beautiful.Thank you.

  • @zennabella1676
    @zennabella1676 6 років тому +2

    WOW, LOVELY VOICE. A FRIEND JUST TOLD ME ABOUT THIS SINGER. I LL LISTEN TO MORE OF HER SONGS NOW.

  •  4 роки тому +1

    Schlicht und einfach DIE Jahrhundertaufnahme dieses Werks mit meiner geliebten und bewunderten Lehrerin, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf! Auf meinem Kanal „Morgen“, 1991 am Mozarteum Salzburg mit Schwarzkopf einstudiert! Unvergessen! Danke für ewig, Dame Elisabeth!!!

  • @sarvienglhardt8608
    @sarvienglhardt8608 8 років тому +6

    Simply beautiful!

  • @margaridavargas1650
    @margaridavargas1650 10 років тому +2

    Very good somewhere between Kiri Te Kenwaba and Jessie Norman, but really very good. With Jessie Norman I come to tears...

  • @tommymoore8390
    @tommymoore8390 6 років тому +2

    still after all of these years from my vinyl, CD, now UA-cam my favorite performance of this piece so tender and earnest with no fuss saw her years ago in Ann arbor Strauss and Wolfe Lieder program quite marvelous. thank you for sharing this with the rest of us.

  • @elenitasaez9857
    @elenitasaez9857 9 років тому +2

    ¡GRACIAS ! MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS POR PONER ESTE CD EN YOU TUBE!
    Desde ya hace no se cuantos años, vibré con esta música y en particular con esta versión mas que única..Hace dos años me trasladé desde Buenos Aires a ésta costa maravillosa . En una maleta pequeña había puesto la música que mas me importaba, la que quería tener conmigo. Bueno...los aeropuertos tienen lo suyo. Cuando llegué a Dússeldorf, mi primera escala, los discos ,junto a otras cosas habían desparecido.
    Al llegar a la Costa del Sol,entré en Amazon y compré lo que encontré.En ese momento no estaba esta versión. Compré otra.NADA, NADA QUE VER.!
    Comprendo lo que dice Cantero, Es lo último que querría escuchar al irme. pero , yo aún no tengo ningún deseo de partir...y en el mientras tanto ,seguiré "embriagándome" con ésto todas las veces que me sean posibles.
    Gracias otra vez a quién nos regaló esta posibilidad

  • @falesch
    @falesch 5 років тому +3

    This glorious music must never be far from my reach. This one with Szell has been with me for decades (as has the Ackerman also, but this one suits me more). Others that I've loved almost as much are Gundula Janowitz and Lisa Della Casa (she made two with Karl Böhm, at the moment I forget which of the two I prefer). These three magnificent sopranos have been my choices for decades. Then not too long ago I came upon the version with Lucia Popp and Tennstedt conducting, and was I ever smitten! Lucia is now my favourite but I would chop off the hand of anyone trying to take Elisabeth from me! I have listened to and studied dozens of other recordings including Norman, Te Kanawa, Fleming, but none from those dozens comes close to any of the four mentioned above, IMO.

  • @solangefoley7413
    @solangefoley7413 7 місяців тому

    Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was gifted with a voice which touches the very fibers of your soul

  • @edwardnah4718
    @edwardnah4718 5 років тому +5

    Technically, her expression is amazingly sensitive and show the ideal for the last four songs.

  • @estefeezy
    @estefeezy 6 років тому +1

    Im Abendrot is amazing. Thanks to the Trip to Italy showing me for this amazing song

  • @N0R3M4C
    @N0R3M4C 3 роки тому +1

    Apparently this is what Michel Foucault listened to when he tripped acid in the desert
    "We went to Zabriskie Point to see Venus appear. Michael placed speakers all around us, as no one else was there, and we listened to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sing Richard Strauss’s, Four Last Songs. I saw tears in Foucault’s eyes. We went into one of the hollows and laid on our backs, like James Turrell’s volcano, and watched Venus come forth and the stars come out later. We stayed at Zabriskie Point for about ten hours."

  • @user-sf4er3xw3j
    @user-sf4er3xw3j 3 роки тому +2

    Best song, Best voice, Best play

  • @gastonvandenbroeck3950
    @gastonvandenbroeck3950 9 років тому +2

    Que je commence en disant que je ne suis nullement connaisseur: je suis professeur romaniste à la retraite et n'ai aucune formation musicale digne de ce nom. Toutefois, en 1998 et 1999 j'ai écouté l'oeuvre entier de J.S. Bach par deux fois, et j' ai énormément appris. Ce qui me permet,, en tant qu'amateur, d'exprimer humblement mon avis. Cette musique et la cantatrice sont d'un niveau qu'on ne saurait surestimer. L' atmosphère mystérieuse où se baigne cette musique romantique et la voix de la dame qui la chante me nous élève et, j'espère, vous aussi, chers lectrice ou lecteur, dans un univers dont on ne sort qu' à contre-coeur, comme l'on ne retourne pas volontiers d' une exécution de la 'Matthaeuspassion' de mon compositeur favori.

  • @gkreno1
    @gkreno1 9 років тому +6

    This is wonderfuuul
    thanks

  • @merlin00191
    @merlin00191 11 років тому +3

    I have loved and cherished this recording for forty years. Today I discovered the only other version(other than Jessie Norman) that rivals it: Lisa Della Casa is superb!

  • @alanmundy127
    @alanmundy127 7 років тому +3

    There are times when music seems to come from another world, bringing with it ineffable bliss and peace. This is surely one such. For me the comparable pieces are Janet Baker in "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" and the Chorus Mysticus in the Symphony of a Thousand.

  • @michaeltheodorou9040
    @michaeltheodorou9040 3 роки тому +1

    Yes, this is the best!

  • @nadinelambard1011
    @nadinelambard1011 Рік тому +1

    La voix de Madame E Schwarzkopf nous transporte dans une autre dimension où le temps se trouve comme suspend