Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - FOUR LAST SONGS

Richard Strauss.
FOUR LAST SONGS.
Spring.
September.
Going to Sleep (Poems by Hermann Hesse).
In the Glow of Evening (Poem by Joseph von Eichendorff).
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano.
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
George Szell.
From Angel LP first published 1966.

[@circaaeon5032]

Richard Strauss saved my Grandfather's life !! My Grandfather - Jascha Spivakovsky - was a prominent Jewish concert pianist in Germany in the year before Hitler came to power and friends with Strauss. Strauss found out my Grandfather was on a Nazi hit-list and warned him using a musically-coded note. Were it not for that, my Grandfather would have been assassinated, but instead he left Germany just in time and went to Australia where I was eventually born. Thank you Mr.Strauss for saving my Grandfather's life !! Strauss wasn't just a great composer, he was also a good man !!

[@TheELectricStylez]

wow!

[@ciupenhauer]

we know he saved a lot of jewish lives, but this story kind of seems made up, sry

[@pinklacelady]

@@ciupenhauer nope, there are many stories like this that are true.

[@lauremeunier9280]

This is a moving story which is very consistent with what we may perceive as Richard Strauss's sensitiveness.

[@javierborda8684]

What was the musical code he used?

[@MrRumpwrestler]

I remember hearing this marvelous work with Schwarzkopf in San Francisco so many years ago.... so powerful, I had to leave the theater... in tears.

[@filfunky5478]

❤

[@tucu2]

Bis heute bleibt Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DER Maßstab für die Interpretation des Strauss'schen opus ultimum, und nicht nur dessen. Großartig!

[@Sturmisch]

Agreed !

[@tonilodder7255]

This is all about being born and die, devastating song, simply the best. Elisabeth Scharzkopf. Well, I will soon die of cancer, but this will give me, and my beloved ones great consolution. Txs Strauss and Elisabeth!

[@user-kj2hr7fm4f]

Bro you live? 🥴

[@lenaxo8260]

@@user-kj2hr7fm4f rude.

[@Bu-bo-Bu-bo]

@@user-kj2hr7fm4f Well if this can help you, his playlist has been updated last 5 days ago. So maybe some luck, and good medications kept him alive. I prefer to think this than something else !

[@user-kj2hr7fm4f]

@@Bu-bo-Bu-bo heh good. Austrian grandpa is still alive

[@wormswithteeth]

*Hello this is your yearly check up. Are you there?*

[@cawag98]

I played this for my father in his last hours in hospital.

[@donbenham1]

Love

[@dissilymordentroge5818]

I’m hoping someone does that for me or at least plays Kathleen Ferrier’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ .Maybe both if I survived the first.

[@rosemaryrodricks5867]

cawag98 a

[@keithvallencourt7901]

@cawag98 - This is what my father, a former opera singer, requested in his last hours, too...

[@flemmingdalsgaard3231]

A beautiful choice. This music is about accepting that life has an end.

[@laxano45]

people wake up with this magnificent music and maybe, just maybe there will be hope for us

[@RichardFeynmanRules]

This glorious music was balm to my soul this morning. There are many fabulous recordings of this sublime work by Strauss, but Schwarzkopf's interpretation/recording has remained at the top for me through the decades. Yes, there are some vocalists with "better" or more "operatic" voices, there are later recordings with better recording sonics, but the sensitivity, poetic enunciation, and soulfulness of Schwarzkopf's interpretation sings to my heart as no other does. The fourth and last song always breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes. ❤️❤️❤️

[@mccarlson52]

I played these all day long for my partner Charlie as he lay dying. He loved these songs so much, and I knew they would bring him comfort in his last hours.

[@tomhoobler6686]

Bless You

[@jorgbirmelin1547]

Ergriffen...bewegt...ich wünsche dir, dass die Trauer geht und die Erinnerung an deinen Partner bleibt...Jörg

[@johng4227]

good man, sorry for your loss

[@mccarlson52]

@@johng4227 Thank you!

[@betsydog0120]

I am so sorry for your loss! My partner died 3 years ago. He introduced me to Schwarzkopf recordings when I was 24, young singer at the beginning of my career....

[@estherszalay3898]

Thank you! Gift from Heaven is her voice!

[@bkrav1847]

There is no more beautiful music than that.

[@douglasandrewtown]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf understands this music as no other singer has done.

[@IvanGreindl]

Indeed... ! :-)

[@sylvielebeau3202]

Not only this one. I remember as a student, when I wanted to understand a score, I would listen to her... Never failed!

[@alfonsotalavera1426]

Jessie Norman

[@StocksIn60Seconds]

Uh...Jessye Norman...

[@pereiraj-charles9718]

Comment ne pas fondre de bonheur en écoutant ce monuments de la musique classique . Bonheur renouvelé a chaque écoute et presque a chaque foi une larme d'émotion perle a mes yeux même si je ne comprend pas les paroles .Merci monsieur Richard Strauss !!!

[@pablov1973]

Every time I listen this song, I end full of tears. This recording is my favorite.

[@lesleyburton9999]

Likewise, although the tears come sooner.

[@graemedurie9094]

You're not alone. We join you.

[@langsettranger]

I am in tears of joy too 💞💞

[@amsj2906]

I always stop what I'm doing to cry at the last song. And wonder how my last moments will be?

[@roberthowes7827]

The incomparable quality of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, as a lieder singer the best in the world. Richard Strauss must have been pleased.

[@remixuereb]

Incomparable rencontre de deux excellents artistes , celle de Richard Strauss et de son interprète idéale , feu Elisabeth Schwarzkopf d'une voie puissante autant aigüe que délicate et nuancée .

[@vjkumar2006]

ryrq

[@canman5060]

She might have met the composer.

[@jdeeside5021]

She embodies everything an artist requires to make this THE interpretation of these gorgeous songs.

[@pattipage2122]

So beautiful, still gives me goosebumps after all these years.

[@PrincessZerlina]

Happy 150th bday, Richard Strauss

[@trevor383]

When I despair of the madness and stupidity prevalent in this world I listen to this and think maybe, just maybe, there is hope for humanity after all.

[@javierborda8684]

Marvin Cooper 2020, confirmed!

[@winifredtrout1]

Me tooooooo

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Someone is resentful, I guess.

[@Sturmisch]

This music is like a very soft balm on a burn wound.

[@laurapipe9942]

David lynchs wild at heart made me find this incredible piece of music

[@CoyLadyDDL]

Schwarzkopf owns this Strauss piece! Beautiful!

[@MOGGS1942]

I disagree, but respect your choice. It's Jessye Norman for me.

[@debl601]

@Sam Stone I didn't realize the connection with EMI studios so thank you for the information and recommendation. I'll listen to Elsa's Dream shortly.

[@graemedurie9094]

@@MOGGS1942 Yes - this account is magnificent, but for my money, the Jessye Norman is better.

[@peterzagar2742]

The first time I heard Four Last Songs, it was on the radio, I didn’t know what I was listening to, but I was hypnotised. It was this performance. Both the soloist and the orchestra are beyond comparison, a class of their own!

[@georgelocke9523]

Peter Zagar : Same with me. And I first heard “Eine Alpensinfonie” on the radio the first time also. I was blown away with both works. “What the hell IS that??”

[@flemmingdalsgaard3231]

Exactly the same happened to me!

[@renodet]

@@georgelocke9523 An Alpine Symphony moves me to tears every time I listen to it -- I can't believe such beautiful music exists!

[@ihopetowin]

If you listen only to one recording of the Four Last Songs, this is the one, a superlative interpretation.

[@henrikbuusen]

I agree

[@RodolfoLimacbx]

00:00 - "Frühling" (Spring) 03:46 - "September" 09:10 - "Beim Schlafengehen" (When Falling Asleep) 14:36 - "Im Abendrot" (At Sunset)

[@mattcook7853]

thank you!

[@sillygirlcentral]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@Kyleinasailing]

Open a bottle of red, put your feet on the table and close your eyes - just fabulous

[@novsun7317]

can't get over this

[@ThousandShakes]

My parents would blast this, what memories. Dad died at sunrise three weeks ago, at home, on one of those sunny, calm, cold winter mornings when the birds are all on the wing. We played Mahler's Adagietto however.

[@meredith218461]

For me the definitive interpretation of these valedictory masterpieces.

[@luna47662]

Grandioso Strauss! Ascoltare i 4 lieder è come cavalcare le nuvole insieme ad un Angelo invisibile ed una schiera di rondini, aironi, cicogne e qualsiasi altra creatura finalmente libera di oltrepassare qualsiasi confine umano!

[@MalisandreFeline]

Quelle magnifique oeuvre ! Et cette voix superbe vous transporte dans la beauté que la musique nous fait entrevoir!!

[@MADScientists4040]

Simply inspired. A work from the heavens.

[@byunghoonnoh5141]

It looks like these songs were composed for Schwarzkopf. When I first heard her song on the radio in 1978,I was deeply moved by her song's grace and nobility.

[@adelaidefrance9026]

I discoverd these marvellous songs twenty years further!!nevertheless,i do love song by ES and nobody else!!such a merveille!!

[@hrh2842]

Strauss wanted Flagstad to sing the premier, and she did in 1950 in London. The manuscript to a fifth song was owned by Maria Jeritza who kept it in her safe during her lifetime. "Malven" was premiered just a few years ago by Eva Marton. Have not heard of it being added to the previous four, that were published by Strauss' friend Ernst Roth.

[@johnlecheminant4493]

the most moving & beautiful music I have heard.It brings me to tears

[@chanoides]

Listening in far-off Australia.. Saw her many times in 60,s Now it is time to die.. Heaven can not possibly be better than this... No No !!!! Not even you Birgit,, great as you are

[@tomrobey2962]

Are you still dying?

[@wormswithteeth]

Hope your still alive to hear this once more...

[@1954surya]

Der Zauber bleibt ungebrochen. Absolute Schönheit. Wahr und gut. Ewiger Moment, ein unvergänglicher Augenblick.

[@wspeter9030]

That’s the highest music what was ever found on Earth!

[@HelenaWilliams8696]

Outstanding Soprano. Very pleasant and beautiful arias. Fantastic Strauss Music.

[@TedWms521]

The "Last Four Songs" gets my vote as the most beautiful music of the 20th century. Forced to choose the best rendition, I'd pick Schwarzkopf's but these wonderful songs evoke moving performances by many others.

[@passerineblue]

Jesse Norman's is the best, I think. I like Elizabeth, but she sounds reedy next to Jessye.

[@eastgermanautos]

@@passerineblue I have listened to them both often. Like both. I grew up on Norman, but have to say that if one's preference if for a more unornamented, crisp rendition, then Schwarzkopf gets it. Schwarzkopf's is closer chronologically to the work itself (1949), while Norman creates her own epoch, it seems to me, with that particular effort

[@Harry-sq4nl]

I have listened to Schwarzkopf sing this most beautiful music since I was 16 (now 83) and never failed to be moved to my depths every time.

[@9SmartSand6]

I used to use Schwarzkopf and Kiri Te Kanawa singing Beim Schlafengehen to test, and to demo, audio equipment I designed, in A/B comparisons at clients' homes, against high-end gear they owned. Worked like a charm....and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Decades before the whole 'ASMR' meme became popular. We called it an 'eargasm'.

[@Kaiser-wc1bo]

Vor allem hinsichtlich der Aussprache der deutschen Konsonanten ist ihr Gesang bis jetzt unvergleichlich schön ! !

[@davidsuratgar7278]

Sublime and certainly divine and the music to die hearing!

[@ledidany70]

Bravissima, interpretazione stupefacente!!!

[@javierborda8684]

Harmonies are just mind blowing.

[@brunoalbrecht5827]

Beautifully interpreted! Orchestration of these songs is some of Richard Strauss' most wonderful music.

[@sgplus3]

I am blessed to be alive to hear this grace and nobility - it makes makes me feel proud to be human. Thank you Elizabeth.

[@wetering777]

Stephanie Genis what an unbelievable stupid statement. So you need an utterly stupid woman in your life to feel alive? HAHAHAHA how petatic and poor. What a poverty. Was a good singer indeed, but does that make you intelligent? In any case not you hahahahahahahahaha

[@davidgantsweg6653]

joseph frank Whay you said makes you a moron and a poor excuse for a human being, Joseph. You are pathetic for saying such a thing whether or not you believe it. STFU and go live under a rock. Oh, and have a nice day.

[@wetering777]

David Gantsweg I am used to utterly stupid people of whom you are one.Talking about a poor excuse,.....you mean your life? Dont make me laugh louder than I already do. Your stupidity is boundless.

[@wetering777]

David Gantsweg Sorry that I forgot to tell you that you are clearly brain death. But I thought you knew already.

[@alancrabb]

+Stephanie Genis : You - we - are indeed blessed. This is a pinnacle of human creativity and artistry.

[@mauriziogagliardi6189]

possiedo questo disco in vinile e cd che mi fu consigliato dal proprietario di un negozio di dischi di Roma. ascoltarlo è ogni volta un piacere immenso per la qualità della musica di Strauss ma principalmente per la sublime interpretazione della Schwarzkopf che mi ammalia .

[@frankporter6169]

After 50 years this is still by far my favorite interpretation of these songs. Norman is fine but for my ears "too loud" and direct. Kiri Te Kanawa has a lovely voice that is honest and frank. Schwarzkopf brings a subtlety but maintains that timeless German feeling and depth. Thank you for placing this on You Tube.

[@IvanGreindl]

I'm entirely agreeding with your opinion...

[@CMI2017]

Stimmt.

[@iakovosarvanitis8812]

ΚΑΘΕ ΜΙΑ ΕΧΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΧΑΡΗ ΤΗΣ !!!!!!!!!!

[@hughcapetien]

I love them all: Kanawa, Schwarzkopf, Popp, Fleming, Norman - they were the best!@Paul James

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@hughcapetien There are also less well known but equally fine renditions by Arleen Auger, Heather Harper, Felicity Lott and Anja Harteros.

[@edwardnah4718]

George Szell - how he could sound orchestration of this music, fantastic!!! Absolutely sensitive drawing of this music!!!

[@sleort42]

I hope that I can bring these four songs with me when I leave this World. Upwards or downwards ------ if only I can hear this beautiful music.

[@hugodegaris4054]

You isscienate fairy. When you die, youre no longer a conscious being able to enjoy any music, nor anything at all, because youre DEAD!

[@gallitube]

You horrid troll. Were you born without imagination or did you lose it gradually as you were abused?

[@12max14]

Hugo, i don't hope you will leave this world one day with empty hands. Troels will take them with him, i'm sure.

[@ronaldjas3471]

Troels Varming disgusting comment, shame on you.

[@mannail888]

Shame on you.

[@MrRichygm]

Many outstanding singers have performed these masterpieces, but here the outstanding comes up against the incomparable.

[@richardmackay4369]

What a wonderful catalogue of listeners comments! Perfect complement to the adorable Schwarzkopf!

[@garyblais8602]

A superb recording Elisabeth and Szell due the world great justice . Brava Schwarzkopf.

[@johnprasad326]

Schwarzkopf also does an amazing Marschlin in Der Rosenkavelier.

[@drbarbarabaker]

Listen for how she carries the phrase from one segment to another, across the breath, even when the breaks are quite long.

[@anne-louiseluccarini4530]

Two supreme artists.

[@gab-sk5sz]

Simply incredible!

[@12max14]

0:00 Frühling - Spring - Printemps 3:41 September 9:06 Beim Schlafengehen - Going to sleep - L'heure du sommei 14:32 Im Abendrot - At sunset - Au crépuscule

[@dinaipavic1483]

Thank you.

[@alainflaux870]

La grâce et la beauté la pureté à l’état pur.un merci à jamais et pour toujours MADAME

[@geanarsa]

Drops of celestial love condensed in etheric tones. Tones that caress my soul, cure it, sweeten it, fill it with peace and gratitude.

[@bronxboy47]

This album was my introduction to Strauss's 4 Last Songs. It was given to me by a neighbor as a housewarming gift on my first night in my first apartment. I didn't speak a word of German at the time. 2 years later I was majoring in German Language and Literature.

[@jatriggs]

Best interpretation - yes! Of a wonderful masterpiece!

[@artfilmhiggins]

Im Abendrot slays me...

[@niallmorris9151]

exquisite and beyond all others.

[@rath7948]

The greatest version I have ever heard.

[@jogejoge11]

The best singer of our era. I get chilllllls over all of my body just listening the control, interpretation and finesse of her technique. Thank you for posting this recordings.

[@LatteLoverNo1]

I grew up listening to Elisabeth Scharzkopf singing the Four Last Songs, and saw her perform them with the Seattle Symphony in the old Orpheum Theatre in downtown Seattle. I adored her on the recording, and fell in love with her when I saw her perform. I'm so grateful that you posted this on KZbin. Thank you.

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

A los 21 años escuché a Elisabeth Schwarzkopf cantar Vier letzte lieder y sentí mi cuerpo entero vibrar en aquella llamada que Strauss nos dejara como última ofrenda. ¡Qué mejor legado! ¡Qué mejor interpretación! Hoy la recibo más que un recuerdo como dádiva renovada “Ahora te muestras/ en tu esplendor y atavío,/ inundada de luz/ ante mi, como un milagro”. Gracias sean dadas por escuchar de nuevo el canto último en la esperanza de que pronto llegue el remanso y se apaguen las candilejas de este escenario para yacer en el silencio. Ya no vibra mi cuerpo pero mi alma siente la urgencia de esa luz que no es otra que el fulgor que precede al apagón final.

[@gregzeck9845]

Gracias para estas palabras muy elocuentas.

[@albertovelazquez4303]

Excelente comentario Gracias.

[@futuropasado]

belleza gracias

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

Azku, de nuevo gracias a ti

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

Gracias a ti Greg

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Fantastic rendition of Richard Strauss' swam song. I know which music to be played when I die .

[@patriciapaape9238]

Beautiful.Thank you.

[@jimcrawford5039]

I was unaware of this disc with the great Szell conducting. It is just marvellous. Schwarzkopf is at her finest and right near the end of her career too!

[@IvanGreindl]

The *purest* interpretation without any doubt, since the creation -- by K. Flagstad --, of these marvelous lieder. Still today, listening to them is the same enchantment since my (distant) youth... On her very last performance of the "4 letzte Lieder" (september 1970, at the Brussels' Opera de la Monnaie), she accompanied Jorge Dönn, the star dancer of the "Ballets du XXe siècle", on a Maurice Béjart choreography, "Serait-ce la Mort ?". Un-for-get-table!

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

16:13 the most utterly beautiful and at the same time dangerous music I know ..... not for (my) children ......

[@drbarbarabaker]

The premier performance of these songs was by Kirsten Flagstad.

[@roelfromgroningen]

The voice is velvet. Most beautiful music ever written among other music off course. if there is an existens of heaven this music is the evidence!

[@golden-63]

Velvet?!? It's small, the and brittle. Very dry sounding.

[@jdeeside5021]

A lifetime of experience and understanding; a unique but instantly recognisable interpretation. It’s divine.

[@sarvienglhardt8608]

Simply beautiful!

[@PaulJones-oj4kr]

this is just totally ravishing music making by Schwartzkopf and Szell.......these readings set the standard of depth and sensitivty before which all pretenders genuflect in perfect reverence.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Maravillosa música ,como una caricia que roza tu alma

[@holyfox94]

As teenager, under the irritating spell of hormones, I preferred Jessye Normans interpretation. But now, as a grown up women, it’s Frau Schwarzkopf. Thank god, things settle down and get calmer the older one gets🙏🏻

[@claim2game027]

0:00 *Frühling* _(Hermann Hesse)_ In dämmrigen Grüften Träumte ich lang Von deinen Bäumen und blauen Lüften, Von deinem Duft und Vogelsang. Nun liegst du erschlossen In Gleiß und Zier, Von Licht übergossen Wie ein Wunder vor mir. Du kennst mich wieder, Du lockst mich zart, Es zittert durch all meine Glieder Deine selige Gegenwart. --- 3:41 *September* _(Hermann Hesse)_ Der Garten trauert, kühl sinkt in die Blumen der Regen. Der Sommer schauert still seinem Ende entgegen. Golden tropft Blatt um Blatt nieder vom hohen Akazienbaum. Sommer lächelt erstaunt und matt in den sterbenden Gartentraum. Lange noch bei den Rosen bleibt er stehen, sehnt sich nach Ruh. Langsam tut er die großen müdgewordnen Augen zu. --- 9:06 *Beim Schlafengehen* _(Hermann Hesse)_ Nun der Tag mich müd gemacht, soll mein sehnliches Verlangen freundlich die gestirnte Nacht wie ein müdes Kind empfangen. Hände, laßt von allem Tun, Stirn, vergiß du alles Denken, alle meine Sinne nun wollen sich in Schlummer senken. Und die Seele unbewacht will in freien Flügen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben. --- 14:32 *Im Abendrot* _(Joseph von Eichendorff)_ Wir sind durch Not und Freude gegangen Hand in Hand; vom Wandern ruhen wir beide nun überm stillen Land. Rings sich die Täler neigen, es dunkelt schon die Luft. Zwei Lerchen nur noch steigen nachträumend in den Duft. Tritt her und lass sie schwirren, bald ist es Schlafenszeit. Dass wir uns nicht verirren in dieser Einsamkeit. O weiter, stiller Friede! So tief im Abendrot. Wie sind wir wandermüde-- Ist dies etwa der Tod?

[@claim2game027]

*Frühling* / _Primavera_ Em escuras criptas Há muito sonhei Com as tuas árvores e ares azulados, Com o teu aroma e o canto das aves. Agora jazes revelada, Em esplendor e glória, Transbordante de luz, Como um milagre ante a mim. Tu me conheces ainda, Seduzes-me ternamente, Vibra em todo o meu corpo A tua presença bendita!

[@claim2game027]

*September* / _Setembro_ O jardim está de luto, A chuva fria cai sobre as flores. O verão estremece silenciosamente para o seu fim. Folhas douradas, uma a uma, caem da elevada acácia. O verão sorri, surpreso e pálido no sonho do jardim moribundo. Por um longo tempo, junto das rosas ele para, ansiando por paz. E lentamente fecha os grandes e cansados olhos.

[@claim2game027]

*Beim Schlafengehen* / _Ao deitar_ Agora que o dia me deixou cansado, O meu desejo ardente Receberá amistoso a estrelada noite Como uma criança cansada. Mãos, cessai toda atividade, Fronte, esquece todo pensamento, Todos os meus sentidos agora Querem se afundar neste torpor. E a alma indefesa quer em livres voos elevar-se, para no círculo mágico da noite, profunda e múltipla, viver.

[@claim2game027]

*Im Abendrot* / _Arrebol_ Por aflições e alegrias Passamos de mãos dadas; Do vagar descansamos ambos Agora sobre a terra silente. Ao redor os vales se inclinam, já se escurece o ar. Só duas cotovias ainda se levantam, Como um sonho, no ar perfumado. Achega-te, e deixa-as ruflarem, logo é hora de dormir - Não nos percamos Nesta solidão. Ó vasta, tranquila paz! Tão profunda no arrebol. Quão cansados estamos de vagar - Será isto talvez a morte?

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Ma theus DANKE!☝☝☝🌏🌎🌍😊😢😘

[@martin410515]

Es una verdadera maravilla la interpretación que logra hacer Elizabeth Schwrazkopf

[@michaeltheodorou9040]

Yes, this is the best!

[@lochfc]

No comparison the best. She simply owns these ravishing songs. The control of voice colour is unsurpassed.

[@user-sf4er3xw3j]

Best song, Best voice, Best play

[@byunghoonnoh5141]

I don't know German. But whenever I listen to her German lyric songs, I'm amazed at her German dicion,pronunciation and emotion.

[@gregzeck9845]

Well, she's German, you know!

[@stevetutty2818]

@@gregzeck9845 you missed the point!

[@roberthowes7827]

May I make this point, I intensly dislike critics of great singers who keep raking up the past. Most singers have no choice about where they are from, they can only move forward.

[@ezracheney5435]

She is the best among all sopranos who have sung these four. Understanding the poetry and mood will be the key to deliver.

[@anhdao4697]

GGhegxlz Cxexlg

[@toenoek]

The best interpretation ever. Thanks for posting.

[@davy91101]

This was the second recording that ES made; a third was released as an anniversary issue, a live performance. My own preference is this taping in which the artists admits to having transposed some of the vocal lines. No matter as her total involvement in the text is supreme and resources have been husbanded so that the total effect is supreme. I adore this singer and was lucky enough to have seen her in Mozart and Strauss roles which she retained as she shifted her main activities to the recital stage. A great artist.

[@richardmalton2995]

My god...thank you; the first person I've ever come across who noticed Fruhling was in B minor instead of C minor. It's a real shame, as it thickens the orchestration a little, & as a soprano she really should have no trouble with any of the songs. Still, no-one sung them quite like she did, though her recording with Ackermann, whilst in mono, is even better.

[@edwardnah4718]

Technically, her expression is amazingly sensitive and show the ideal for the last four songs.

[@chanoides]

surely the greatest liric soprano of all time, with all respects to the 2 closest to her,.... Vickie de l and eliz. schumman repeat, for us who SAW singing in the 50,s/60,s, time to die.!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kevinlax9659]

In the Glow of the Evening...so beautiful. Lovely voice. Thanks for sharing :)

[@estefeezy]

Im Abendrot is amazing. Thanks to the Trip to Italy showing me for this amazing song

[@josemanuelmorales428]

¡Maravillosa Schwarkopf!

[@margaridavargas1650]

Very good somewhere between Kiri Te Kenwaba and Jessie Norman, but really very good. With Jessie Norman I come to tears...

[@nadinelambard1011]

La voix de Madame E Schwarzkopf nous transporte dans une autre dimension où le temps se trouve comme suspend

[@marchellabrahams]

Brava, très bien dit, madame.

[@fgiord8fgg]

who in God's name were the 104 who did not like this miracle of a performance?

[@golden-63]

Schwarzkopf is one of those singers we're supposed to revere. In reality, it was a small, thin, and unattractive voice.

[@comogutierrez7722]

Insuperable: la unión de Schwarzkopf y George Szell

[@zennabella1676]

WOW, LOVELY VOICE. A FRIEND JUST TOLD ME ABOUT THIS SINGER. I LL LISTEN TO MORE OF HER SONGS NOW.

[@jeanenry]

Well done Konstantinos, you recognize the divine, and she was that. This was her her greatest recording in my mind. I visited Aldeburgh several times where she held classes. but never saw her. She belongs in Elysium which is where I always see her, thank you.

[@N0R3M4C]

Apparently this is what Michel Foucault listened to when he tripped acid in the desert "We went to Zabriskie Point to see Venus appear. Michael placed speakers all around us, as no one else was there, and we listened to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sing Richard Strauss’s, Four Last Songs. I saw tears in Foucault’s eyes. We went into one of the hollows and laid on our backs, like James Turrell’s volcano, and watched Venus come forth and the stars come out later. We stayed at Zabriskie Point for about ten hours."

[@merlin00191]

I have loved and cherished this recording for forty years. Today I discovered the only other version(other than Jessie Norman) that rivals it: Lisa Della Casa is superb!

[@solangefoley7413]

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was gifted with a voice which touches the very fibers of your soul

[@tommymoore8390]

still after all of these years from my vinyl, CD, now KZbin my favorite performance of this piece so tender and earnest with no fuss saw her years ago in Ann arbor Strauss and Wolfe Lieder program quite marvelous. thank you for sharing this with the rest of us.