Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - Magdalena Kožená LIVE - Rückert - Mahler

Magdalena Kožená - Mezzo Soprano


Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Poem by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
Music by Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)


LIVE from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 30 April 2008
http://www.swr.de/swr2/schwetzinger-festspiele/programm/-/id=656996/nid=65699...


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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,
Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben,
Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen,
Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben!

Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen,
Ob sie mich für gestorben hält,
Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen,
Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt.

Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel,
Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet!
Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel,
In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied!
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I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!
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Straniero al mondo sono diventato,
al mondo che tanto del mio tempo mi ha tolto,
da tempo ormai nulla di me ha saputo,
e forse crederà che sia ormai morto.

E pure nulla me ne può importare,
se mi considera come se fossi morto,
e non ho proprio niente da obiettare
perché davvero al mondo io sono morto.

Io sono morto al mondano frastuono,
E ormai in un luogo tranquillo resto a riposare!
E nel mio cielo vivo tutto solo,
e pure nei miei canti e nel mio amore.
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He desaparecido del mundo
Donde antes perdía tanto tiempo,
Hace ya tanto que no sabe de mí
¡que bien podría pensar que he muerto!

Me da igual
Que piense que he muerto;
Me es imposible negarlo,
Pues realmente lo estoy para el resto del mundo.

Lo estoy para el tumulto terrenal,
¡y descanso en un reino sereno!
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[dpa100]

Listening to this carefully a number of times with some good headphones, someone near the microphone is softly crying throughout.

Don't really blame them. Gudrun74, is it you?

[Gudrun74]

;-)

I have to admit I cried quite when I heard M. Kozena singing this, although(!) I'm not at all into romantic music. But this recording is not from myself, must have been another weeper.

[fiordiligicymraeg]

calling Mahler "avant garde" is amusing to say the least ;-) I hope you realise now that if you block out any music apart from Baroque you are missing out on a LOT of amazing works...don't you also find there were a lot of poor Baroque composers, just as there were many poor romantic and later composers? But in every epoch there is some genius too!

[Gudrun74]

Fiordi..., nice comment ;-) I know I know, what would I then say to Stockhausen? I wasn`t always so reduced, was once quite fond of Bellini&Donizetti, when I lived in MUC where the incomparable E. Gruberova performed on a regular basis (I read you`re in Vienna, so...). With her, I realized I`m attracted by virtuosic singing. The natural consequence of that was for me to plunge more and more into baroque, the "Golden Age" of singing.

[aschii91]

Magda is one of the best Mezzos live! I Love her! I cant wait to have her upcoming recital of Vivaldi arias with Venice Baroque Orquestra under Marcon in June called VIVALDI: Opera & Oratorio arias!

[Gudrun74]

Really? A Vivaldi CD?? You've made my day aschii.

[drbarbarabaker]

She is going for something in particular here. I like it.

[flylooper]

I think this giving is just okay. Tempo is just a bit too fast for me. Too much rubato. The crescendos are too abrupt. Just an opinion, not a pronouncement.

[ianchow107]

Sadness without sentimentality. Bravo!

[danielbream]

bravissima magdalena,

[NovaScotiaChick]

@Gudrun74 Towards the end of the live performance of same on youtube I was overwhelmed by sudden emotion. The words are extremely touching and I remembered the movie in which I first heard this song by Renee Fleming (Bride of the wind), all very heartstring-pulling. First time I heard M. Kozena today, very pleasant voice and personality. Her voice reminds me of Dame Janet Baker -discovered her on the Edward Elgar cello concerto CD (du Pré) which also had a number of songs by Baker on it. *****

[dpa100]

@SpottyDorsord Nope, it's weeping. Just in a few spots, not correlated with compression of the audio, not just one sound. It's weeping. Very subtle. Listen again with your good head phones and crank up the volume. Or just enjoy the music and don't worry about it :>)

[SpottyDorsord]

@dpa100

Are you sure it's not the digital noise from the compression on the audio? I'm on headphones and that's what it sounds like to me. It even buffers volume modulation.

[MrChampu21]

@dpa100 b Estoy de acuerdo contigo-I agree with you :)

[1psoas9]

who's accompanying her on hte piano?

[dpa100]

@saiserieht , nope. listen carefully with some good headphones. Cheers!