Das Abschied

Das Lied von der Erde, Gustav Mahler. Contralto Anna Larsson

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Music

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• Das Lied von der Erde
• Anna Larsson
• Gustav Mahler

[MrAxel3232]

Anna was good here but is even better now, and she's sung Wagner since she started singing. Her first year after operaschool she did three Wagner roles.

[gwalgof1st]

Das Abchied is about the death of the ego, its about the renewal that comes from connecting with nature. Mahler connects with nature and has the ability to put these feelings into music and share them with us.

[gwalgof1st]

Er stieg vom Pferd und reichte ihm den Trunk

Des Abschieds dar. Er fragte ihn, wohin

Er führe und auch warum es müßte sein.

Er sprach, seine Stimme war umflort: Du, mein Freund,

Mir war auf dieser Welt das Glück nicht hold!

Wohin ich geh? Ich geh, ich wandre in die Berge.

Ich suche Ruhe für mein einsam Herz.

Ich wandle nach der Heimat, meiner Stätte.

Ich werde niemals in die Ferne schweifen.

Still ist mein Herz und harret seiner Stunde!

[gwalgof1st]

Die liebe Erde allüberall

Blüht auf im Lenz und grünt

Aufs neu! Allüberall und ewig

Blauen licht die Fernen!

Ewig... ewig...

[gwalgof1st]

He dismounted and handed him the drink of parting. He asked him where he would go, and also why it must be. He spoke, his voice was choked: My friend, on this earth, fortune has not been kind to me! Where do I go? I will go, wander in the mountains. I seek peace for my lonely heart. I wander to find my homeland, my home. I will never stray to foreign lands. Quiet is my heart, waiting for its hour!

[gwalgof1st]

The dear earth everywhere

blooms in spring and grows green

afresh! Everywhere and eternally,

distant places have blue skies!

Eternally... eternally...

[SAMARA3365]

by the way: the conductor is Bernhard Haitink, one of the greatest conductors of our time. A real musician! They are both wunderfull

[kurbiscremesuppe]

Ewig...ewig...

[andreasscholl]

larsson should stick with the lieder and orchestral songs.

wagner singing didnt do that good for her!

although her voice can handle it.....why?

this is so beautful!!!!!!!!

Look at waltraud meier, her voice has lost its form and she had become a shadow of what she was in the begining....a great singer!!!

larsson is wonderfull in the extreme!!!!!!

[MRLebowskyy]

also the conductor and the orchestra are great!