Montserrat Caballe "Beim Schlafengehen" Vier Letzte Lieder

Alain Lombard conductor. Strasbourg, 1977

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Music

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• Onegin65
• Opera
• Lieder
• Strauss
• Montserrat
• Caballe

[thereza25]

¿Por qué no hubo aplausos?

[Oneguin65]

@thereza25 Poque en una grupo de lieder es costumbre no aplaudir hasta que finalice, en este caso finaliza con Im Abendrtt, ahí si hay aplausos

[tuadolcefanciulla]

Dear Oneguin65 - you're the best! This is gorgeous as are all your terrific postings in general.

You've given me access to beautiful voices I would not have known otherwise. Monserrat Caballe' is one a kind. I've heard many versions of Richard Strauss's Vier Letze Lieder. Many amazing ones. Jessye Norman, Kiri Te Kanawa and Renee Fleming's are superb. But this Beim Schlafen is ethereal. Monserrat is ethereal. Thank you with all my heart.

[Oneguin65]

@tuadolcefanciulla My pleasure

[htshoward]

Overall, I love Montserrat; however, I find I either adore her or abhor her on any given thing she sings. She tends to rely too heavily on that phenomenal pianissimi sometimes. The breath control in the 2nd half of this was astounding. Brava!

[Tompa4321]

Beautiful!!!

[PTCello]

@philipc67

I was in complete agreement as I read your comment about Flagstad, but your note about Schwarzkopf left me gasping....how oh how can you not hear the exquisite tenderness in Elizabeth's voice? So gentle, so...so everything anyone could want.

Listen again...

Flagstad, Popp, Janowitz, the terrible video with Lois Marshall and Glenn Gould, all superb, all wonderful, but Only Schwarzkopf wraps you in her voice and lullabyes you away to the stars.

[kca1988]

Oh dear, what is this swoopy train wreck? What a mess.

[philipc67]

Superb, even if she takes some liberties with the tempo and her German diction is not very clear. My two favorite versions remain Kiri te Kanawa and the original recording with Flagstad, scratchy old LP sound and all. Schwarzkopf? Technically sound but frigid, left me unmoved. Janowitz and Norman are OK, but I think Fleming is a mess, way too affected.

[Miguelon3315]

@vonFalkenstein77 hahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!....great joke!

[vonFalkenstein77]

@soulcollector83

Die Caballe singt einfach nicht gut. Soviel Getue um diese Person - nur weil sie mit Mercury geträllert hat. Sutherland, Tebaldi und die Nilsson - das ist das einzige Dreigestirn. Schön übrigens wenn man noch deutsch schreiben kann in diesem heillosen Durcheinander hier!

"Kinder ihr aus fernen Zonen, saget mir warum ihr klagt..." M. Wesendonck behaltet recht..

[vonFalkenstein77]

@allislove1

Each person´s voice is a better choice, dear..

[vonFalkenstein77]

Caballe is the most terrible soprano ever. Dame Joan is the star. I can´t understand why this lady became that famous...Just compare her singing to Dame Joan, Birgit Nilsson or Renata Tebaldi. That´s the real thing..

[MmeFigaro]

who discovered this amazing perl? Thanks a lot... I always thought the Schwarzkopf interpretation of the last frase of this song was the best. There is something magic in the modultion, it has to come out. But Caballe did it better, and it was really something incredible. GREAT!!!!