Just guessing, I'd say that (1) my KZbin channel isn't very visible, and (2) the song shows up in a couple of more recent performances -- by a much older Michael Feinstein -- that might be attracting more attention. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoy it.

@@m3lomane Thanks for the explanation. Could you suggest some of the links where I could find the competing performances. This version cannot be improved upon, if only for sentimental reasons . And II don't know if my heart can endure a version that tops this one.

A search with "Michael Feinstein There Is No Music For Me" gets the more recent performances. 8^)

I can't begin to address the psychology of fin-de-siecle Vienna -- there must be hundreds of books and essays about that. As for the feeling of dread, I think it's real -- it shows up in artists' increasing preoccupation with negative emotions, in painting and poetry as well as music. (e.g., Munch's "The Scream") If the Altenberg songs seem too dreadful, maybe you should back up a ways and start with, for example, Mahler's Wayfarer songs or Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. (I first came to the Altenberg songs from Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra.) As for formlessness, well, the songs _are_ compact, but not without form; I think you just have to listen harder. Mark DeVoto's analysis of the Altenberg songs -- www.jstor.org/stable/832387 -- discusses their forms at length, and concludes that "even such few of Berg's constructive powers as have been illuminated in recent years* caused Stravinsky to suggest that Berg is 'the most gifted constructor in form of the composers of this century.''" *(That was written in 1966.)

With all due affection for Barbra, thank goodness!

Thank goodness!

You aren't the only one. Here are comments from people who understand this music a whole lot better than I do. (I especially recommend Mark DeVoto's web pages about this music.) "The Altenberg Lieder reveal amazing, sensuously expressive vocal and instrumental sound; even today, possibly because they are so seldom heard, they still can dazzle the listener." -- Mark DeVoto, in "Centenary of a Lesser-known Scandal" "The Altenberg, or Ansichtskarten Lieder, though still relatively unknown, is one of the perfect works composed in this century. . . What exquisite pieces they are, especially the Passacaglia [No. 5]." -- Igor Stravinsky, in "Memories and Commentaries" "It is scarcely conceivable that in his first orchestral work - in other words, in the absence of everything that goes by the fatal compliment of routine - a composer could achieve such perfection and balance of sensuous phenomena; extravagances once considered notorious were even then integrated effortlessly into the surface. . . In the Altenberg Songs the most delicate discretion is tantamount to audacity." -- Theodor W. Adorno, in "Alban Berg - Master of the Smallest Link"

@@m3lomane Thank you very much.

@@m3lomane bravo for finding these!

In my case, not even "probably" - fer sure! 8^)

Dear Scott. I detected one mistake: ... Gone is the spell that DISPELLED all alarms... You know what to do !

You should replace by "Le long lai des gloires faussées". Thanks for sharing this great poem.

Yup. Check out Altenberg Lieder #2, #3, #4, and #5. Also check out Renée Fleming: Altenberg Lieder.

m3lomane Thank you and will do. But never Renee Fleming. Cannot abide her singing.

I'd strongly advise listening anyway. I'll admit that her singing is operatic and plummy, but she observes the score markings, and her German is well-nigh perfect, which - alas!- Beardslee's is not.

m3lomane I did listen to RF and remain unconvinced. Who said her German is near perfect? At best it is accented German. At worst one can hardly discern words in what she sings. But this afflicts her singing in any language anyway.

You win -- De gustibus and all that. ... What do you think of Ms. Beardslee's rendition?

of course they do. It is like art "in the ears of the beholder"

why would you want to hear it in english???

steemdup see Joshua bell

steemdup sorry..wrong guy! see Beau Davidson for English translation

+pedro a. cantero ¡Gracias! That was well said.

+m3lomane Gracias a ti.

PM me. Lifetime Harry Warren collector and I’ve got this one (sheet music) and the others that were cut from this film when Judy Garland fell ill and was replaced.

What a gorgeous song with absolutely heartbreaking lyrics. Michael does a fantastic rendition here. I first heard this on Bill Charlap's 2016 album "Notes From New York" and was struck by the beautiful melody, but didn't hear the lyrics til I visited this site. The lyrics really put it over the top. I too have been searching for the sheet music (without success) really would be happy with just the chart - melody line with chord changes. Have heard a good number of Harrey Warren tunes, many of which are deserving of the fame they've enjoyed. How does something like this get buried?

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm flattered, but I haven't performed in years. Thanks anyway.

That's easy: The copyright holder doesn't want people to copy or view without permission. The funny thing is, other copyright holders don't seem to care. So whether something gets blocked or removed (or worse, the KZbin account gets taken down) is unpredictable.

It sucks ! no other logic !

Though I don't doubt that that would help, listening to Mahler's 7th symphony over and over, until every note sounds inevitable, would prepare the ear --- and heart! --- to make room for this music.

Yes!

Stunning.