Allerseelen - Kiri Te Kanawa & Georg Solti

Look at the beautifel big hands of Solti. If hands are the mirror of the soul, he must have a beautiful soul! Wel accompanied, very wel!

Thank GOD he understands , thinks orchestrally, and BREATHES!

it's up for interpretation, but the words do suggest that either the singer or the beloved is dead. It's kind of fun singing it as the ghost.

However, you can imagine it with someone who is happy and has moved on, maybe found love again, but chooses to remember the lost love once a year. that makes it bittersweet.

And the accompanying is out of this world. Sorry I missed saying that the first post round ;)

Lovely. Really gives the lie to the idea that Te Kanawa couldn't be expressive when she felt whatever it was she was singing. Sometimes she didn't feel it .. but what a gorgeous voice.

where was this? acoustics are really nice

It's not the acoustics, it's Kiri's naturally beautiful luscious voice.

I wanted to "thumbs up" this comment, but I can't! I love Kiri singing Strauss lieder, it's some of her best! Her and Georg, simply magic! You are right about her beautiful luscious voice. I don't understand how anybody could not think this is the most beautiful voice on the planet!

bel duo.... la voce morbida, luminosa ed elegante della giovane te kanawa e il fraseggio di solti....

She doesn't just remember the past, she is actually seeing the loved one.

Give me your hand, so I may fondly hold it. If others see it, I don't care what they think...

At Halloween, the veil between the worlds thins and your loved ones can be with you again. That's what the song is about.