a high artistic experience as it is like being moved by something pure and divine.
As word 'rühren' means moving and stars in poetry are often symbols for eternal, divine and especially unmoving or unchanging things to say that a singer can move even stars is to say thathere we have a great artist indeed, one of the immortals.
@MrSkylark1 You are so right. Most sopranos today warble, slip and slide, shout with harsh tones. And, why is that? Even the Vienna Boys Choir has changed. Today's performances are faster and without feeling, whereas earlier recordings showed phrasing, feeling, musical understanding. My father spoke with Lotte and always thought very highly of her.
@sfkcbf -- Her's is most beautiful. Jessye Norman also gives a spiritual interpretation and her vocal ability is forgotten as one is lost in the experience of "Morgen."
Please would someobdoy upload Slisabeth Schumann's performance of this song -- it is THE greatest, even Lehmann thought so, because it's so simple. Only if you've heard Schumann's, in fact, can you understand Irmgard Seefried's which is clearly an sincere attempt to find ANOTHER way of singing it that leaves Schumann's on its pinnacle.
The last couple of lines mean: "Speechless we shall gaze each in the other's eyes.
And the speechless silence of happiness will fall upon us.. " For a complete translation, see Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's rendition, also on YouTube. My favorite is a tie between Janet Baker and Leontyne Price. I knew Price's accompanist, the late David Garvey, so her rendition and his sublime accompaniment are just hard to surpass. The accompaniment is fairly easy to play but hard to bring off in concert.
That cant be right, because Richard Strauss did not write the "Last Songs" until after WW2, and the premiere was in London in 49 sung by Flagstad. This recording must have been made around 1950 or so.
Morgen is not one of the four last songs. They are Fruhling, September, Beim Schlafengehen and Im Abendrot. That's where the confusion is coming from.
Lotte Lehmann is SUPERIOR to ALL the SOPRANOS who occupy the professional operatic stage today, indeed for quite awhile.
MrSkylark1 3 months ago
@MrSkylark1 -- Yes. I'm sure that her's is the interpretation that Richard Strauss intended. We become part of the spell.
bonnies1234567 3 months ago
Magnificent singing.TY ceph77 for posting.
paulostroff99 8 months ago 2
Thank you for this wonderful piece.
The words at the end actually describe poetically
a high artistic experience as it is like being moved by something pure and divine.
As word 'rühren' means moving and stars in poetry are often symbols for eternal, divine and especially unmoving or unchanging things to say that a singer can move even stars is to say thathere we have a great artist indeed, one of the immortals.
Deinous7 9 months ago 3
Simply divine, singing like this takes us beyond human experience...
albafango 1 year ago 2
Exquisite, beautifully produced tone and phrasing, that is non-existent on the opera and concert stage today
MrSkylark1 1 year ago
@MrSkylark1 You are so right. Most sopranos today warble, slip and slide, shout with harsh tones. And, why is that? Even the Vienna Boys Choir has changed. Today's performances are faster and without feeling, whereas earlier recordings showed phrasing, feeling, musical understanding. My father spoke with Lotte and always thought very highly of her.
sfkcbf 1 year ago
@sfkcbf -- Her's is most beautiful. Jessye Norman also gives a spiritual interpretation and her vocal ability is forgotten as one is lost in the experience of "Morgen."
bonnies1234567 4 months ago
Her singing even touched the stars.
preruminator 1 year ago
Thank you very much James, i enjoyed it so much!!
Love Isis
cuoylyf 1 year ago
I am so thankful that I have discovered her here.
BeEarnest 2 years ago
PRICELESS!!
vonspre 2 years ago 2
Please would someobdoy upload Slisabeth Schumann's performance of this song -- it is THE greatest, even Lehmann thought so, because it's so simple. Only if you've heard Schumann's, in fact, can you understand Irmgard Seefried's which is clearly an sincere attempt to find ANOTHER way of singing it that leaves Schumann's on its pinnacle.
1psoas9 3 years ago
Hi :-) thanks for the video but the words at the end mean more something like that: "She has sung that even the stars cried." :-)))
GaetanoMajorano 3 years ago 3
Thank you! And I'm sorry for my poor German. ;)
ceph77 3 years ago
The last couple of lines mean: "Speechless we shall gaze each in the other's eyes.
And the speechless silence of happiness will fall upon us.. " For a complete translation, see Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's rendition, also on YouTube. My favorite is a tie between Janet Baker and Leontyne Price. I knew Price's accompanist, the late David Garvey, so her rendition and his sublime accompaniment are just hard to surpass. The accompaniment is fairly easy to play but hard to bring off in concert.
K3yP1ayer 3 years ago
such a beautiful rendition. Who is accompanying her here? The playing is equally beautiful.
klmnumbers 3 years ago 5
Yes. Absolutely! The pianist is Paul Ulanowsky, and it was made between 1941 and 1942 in Los Angeles.
ceph77 3 years ago 4
That cant be right, because Richard Strauss did not write the "Last Songs" until after WW2, and the premiere was in London in 49 sung by Flagstad. This recording must have been made around 1950 or so.
racingrubberbiker 3 years ago
I have just had a brain storm. Im confusing Morgen with the Last Songs
racingrubberbiker 3 years ago
Morgen is not one of the four last songs. They are Fruhling, September, Beim Schlafengehen and Im Abendrot. That's where the confusion is coming from.
spn1007 2 years ago
Lotte and that diction! She always provides for such CLEAR interpretations. May she rest in peace.
VoyArrasando 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing this beautiful song with us!
I'm a great admirer of Lotte and I'm graceful for every record I can find of her here on youtube.
Lovely video with all the pictures of her successful carreer.
LLehmannfan 3 years ago