Zarah Leander sings "Sang om Syrsor" at her last TV show

Zarah Leander and Birgit Nilsson meet together at the famous swedish TV show "Stjärna mot stjärna" on 25th december 1977.

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• Birgit
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[ellandelachapelle]

I heard Birgit talk about this show on the radio. She said that everyone in the studio was crying when Zarah sang this! (including Birgit herself.) To all you non-Swedes who can't understand this beautiful poetic text : it is a vision of the future. A cold and hostile place (after a nuclear war?) and people remember the days of the past. When there was still love, faith and hope! (well there still is.)

:-D

[zimnaya]

Zarah - I have loved her voice and her beauty ever since I first heard her on an old LP in Leipzig. A wonderful voice - so much emotion and artistry...

Birgit and Zarah - wow!

[jan39able]

Alldeles glimrende jan39able

[Montparnassez]

Oj, oj, Super!!!

[AVikingdad]

This was so wonderful. Listen to her voice. 4 years she died. Rest in peace Zara !

[ComedyHannover]

Its GREAT TO SEE HER IN OLDER AGES!!!!

I NEVER DID IT BEFORE.. and she still got this GREAT VOICE !!!

Thanks for puttingi it in

[laduqesa]

I can no longer hear the crickets, it is sad

but it's an absence I can overcome.

The crickets' song is not an irreplaceable song

but still, I remember a time.

It was then, it was one spring, I was just seventeen years old

and he was of course my young Casanova.

He spoke of warmth and tenderness, something I have forgotten

but he promised me something.

[laduqesa]

Eternal love, yes I think it was something like that he swore. I was a dragon's prisoner, he was a fairy tale Prince and I woke up simply because of the Prince's kiss. We looked each other in the eye while the crickets sang their serenade, I remember that I was glad but that's almost all I remember. Once it can happen it could happen quite soon technically, this destiny was ours, so we huddled in a crowd in a corner of the earth and someone searches for words.

[laduqesa]

It was at a time that there was a world that was not very important

but it was our home and crickets sang in the evening.

Spring makes everything verdant and it was quite good - at least in some places.

Now the sun has been hidden by the blue rime (frost) of Aniaras

and we doubt that good gods exist.

But I remember once, the crickets sang their song

to those who had ears to hear.

Love, faith and hope, was something we discovered

but it is almost all I remember

[timo201282]

Zarah Leander är BÄST....!!!!

[Angelitooblack]

Me dejo atonitoooo........sin palabras

[DHS11999]

Rarely there comes an artist of such depth as Zarah Leander. Although I don't understand these lyrics, the emotion and passion in her voice touch my heart. Bravo, Ms. Leander, Bravo!