Abendempfindung - Mozart (live) | Marie Cayeux

Abendempfindung
music by Mozart
poem by Joachim Heinrich Campe
Soprano: Marie Cayeux
Pianist: Nico de Villiers
From my final recital of Artist Masters in Performance at GSMD
Milton Court Concert Hall
June 11th 2021
English Translation © Richard Stokes:
Evening Thoughts
It is evening, the sun has vanished,
And the moon sheds its silver light;
So life’s sweetest hours speed by,
Flit by as in a dance!
Soon life’s bright pageant will be over,
And the curtain will fall.
Our play is ended! Tears wept by a friend
Flow already on our grave.
Soon perhaps, like a gentle zephyr,
A silent presentiment will reach me,
And I shall end this earthly pilgrimage,
Fly to the land of rest.
If you then weep by my grave
And gaze mourning on my ashes,
Then, dear friends, I shall appear to you
Bringing a breath of heaven.
May you too shed a tear for me
And pluck a violet for my grave;
And let your compassionate gaze
Look tenderly down on me.
Consecrate a tear to me and ah!
Be not ashamed to do so;
In my diadem it shall become
The fairest pearl of all.