Strauss : Im Abendrot ( from : Last Songs) - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Szell*

From one of the very best albums of the 20th century.

[@augustinedennis4865]

As I approach my ninetieth year I am thankful for such exquisite music written? for me and my ilk.

[@lundilar]

Blessings be upon you

[@borisbadenov651]

@@lundilar And upon our Ilk! Cheers!

[@michaeljrussell]

Our "ilk" - true lovers of all that is beautiful and enobles the human spirit - are timeless.

[@oswaldwellman7806]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf', Strauss and Szell combine in a pinnacle of recording history.

[@geraldbull9272]

Lovely, surely if people who appreciate and understand this ruled the world there would be no wars.

[@neusbarrera6401]

Richard Strauss is one my favourite composers and his 4 last songs was his best farewell from the world and a real gift for humankind!! Nobody could sing them better than Schwarzkopf!!

[@hostlangr]

Die vorliegende Interpretation ist sicher sehr gut, jedoch mAn. etwas zu langsam. Die Uraufführung mit W. Furtwängler und K. Flagstad gefällt mir besser. Leider lässt die Tonqualität aus der RAH bei den veröffentlichten Mitschnitten zu wünschen übrig!

[@traianmusatescu7191]

De la Casa

[@francinesicard464]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's sublime rendition is difficult to surpass, she was from the old German school of singing. No Soprano today, even German, reaches this level of interpretation.

[@vincentlombardo9797]

I thought sentimental, the wheelchair, the images.. but no - life is so, and the spirit of all of us who depart, wheelchair or not, is always the same - sad, but beautifully right. Thank you forever Richard Strauss. Still living!!!

[@bernhardpowileit8385]

Mit ihrer sehr schönen weichen Stimme erfüllt uns Elisabeth Schwarzkopf mit der Ruhe der Unendlichkeit, dem Kosmos des Göttlichen und strahlt mit ihren Tönen in die Fülle unserer eigenen Seele. Das Abendrot, ja der Tod sind Ausblick auf das Ewige, auf die Schönheit des glänzenden Nachthimmels, auf die Klänge der Sterne, auf das Wunder eines jeden neugeborenen Geschöpfes. Welch ein großes Geschenk hat uns Richard Strauss hiermit hinterlassen!

[@soavemusica]

Psalm 92: 2 Das ist ein köstlich Ding, dem HERRN danken und lobsingen deinem Namen, du Höchster, 3 des Morgens deine Gnade und des Nachts deine Wahrheit verkündigen, 4 auf den zehn Saiten und Psalter, mit Spielen auf der Harfe.

[@David11643]

The most sublime recording of 'Im Abendrot' ever.

[@francinesicard464]

Absolutely!

[@ursus1302]

Ja

[@angeloravera324]

I am in tears!!!! Strauss living forever!!!

[@user-df8yz7jd3c]

One of the 20th century's greatest sopranos in one of her finest recordings.

[@christophernewman5027]

This will be played at my funeral. Quite apart from being appropriate, it's a piece of music that l love dearly.

[@soavemusica]

It is written: Psalm 92: 1 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound."

[@francinesicard464]

Je ne peux l'écouter sans frisonner. Absolument sublime!

[@FredricEric]

Moi aussi.

[@gunhildpaaske2747]

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf war die beste Liedersängerin aller Welt!

[@claudedarmstadter7774]

Und Richard Strauss' Werk ist der Schwanengesang der groBen Musik.

[@francinesicard464]

Ich stimme Sie voll und ganz zu und vor allem ihreInterpretation der 4 letzten Lieder ist einzigartig in keinem anderen vergleichbaren.

[@georgelocke9523]

@@claudedarmstadter7774 : The End of the Rainbow, as Strauss himself saw his work.

[@hwh1946]

From two artists wo knew and worked with Strauss. Exquisite.

[@AGMundy]

I agree this is a beautiful album. Schwarzkopf is faultless, phrasing is just so wonderful. From the opening bars this just tears out my heart. When I hear music and singing like this I cannot but agree with Schopenhauer's view of music

[@FarsinBanki]

I love this song. Beside its wonderful lyrics the unforgettable Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Marvelous, Fred.

[@marcela77777]

Amazing depth !

[@stevetutty2818]

Such balm for my soul, such peace for my heart, so so very beautiful.

[@alisatabori2359]

Hvala Bogu za ovakvu lepotu!

[@ravsUT]

This is so beautiful and so haunting -- even without context and even without an understanding of the words. Panksepp, an emotion researcher, suggested that our emotional responses to such music may be driven by the fact that the sounds are reminiscent of crying/wailing.

[@cantkeepitin]

ravsUT Actually the words are exactly as beautiful as the music.

[@aidanoshea7795]

This is Strauss's masterpiece. She shares the pinnacle of its performance with Lucia Popp and Gundula Janowitz

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Aidan O Shea And TEKANAWA my friend . Sincerely Arnold Bourbon Amaral 🌿🌍🌎🌏🌹💙👱👴🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🎹🎶🎵📖🙏🏃🏃

[@Cristobels-Green-Boots]

Jessye Norman? 💔

[@francinesicard464]

Absolutely!

[@David11643]

The fragility of Schwarzkopf's singing (her voice was going by the time she recorded this) makes it particularly poignant.

[@francinesicard464]

Agree totally!

[@whitebear7587]

This music is sublimation itself. really amazing.

[@pereiraj-charles9718]

fabuleux toujours le mème bonheur encore et encore merci Elisabeth

[@josealbertovelazquez2959]

Interpretacion que eleva el espiritu. Arrebatadora! De las inmortales en este genero. Magnifica conjuncion de la Schwarzkopf. Y la orquesta. Sublime!

[@gianfrancomeano4587]

Just like to be in Paradise. Wonderful.

[@georgelocke9523]

gianfranco meano : Let’s hope.

[@thefrankonion]

This work is not a tribute to Schwarzkopf. It is a departure from life. It means in the sunset, so do understand that every day on Earth is a blessing

[@roelfromgroningen]

inderdaad een sublieme vertolking van een zangeres met vilt op de stembanden. Geweldig! Strauss is fantastisch!

[@BalbirSingh-gr2qk]

Superb superb wandering into eternity.

[@iainthegrouch]

Fantastic utterly wonderful

[@BlogAndaloussiate]

Ce genre de musique qui donne envie de fermer les yeux et partir loin. Juste sublime.

[@ericheuvel6369]

… go far away… home…

[@diegotalavera428]

Genial este canto gozoso y sereno del final de una vida en común. Una de las canciones de amor más bella del siglo XX.

[@suzannesadiiqa]

I've just read the translation of these words and I'm crying....

[@meikelschwarz5487]

Dann lassen Sie sich auch noch mal den Text von einem der Lieder "September" übersetzen er ist auch wunderbar

[@stargazingwaterdragon5162]

No need to understand the words, the music and the voice were enough to make my cry my eyes out

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@stargazingwaterdragon5162 The words make the emotional experience a hundred times more powerful. This is not just a vocalise. Strauss vividly portrays the meaning of the text in the orchestral part and in the vocal line.

[@MrJoco69]

Very fitting scenes to the end of life scene.

[@antoniocotzia8622]

Fantastica interpretazione 🌹🌹🌹😘

[@santamonica9079]

Sublime, c'est pour ma mère disparue sur Terre

[@antoniocotzia8622]

Fantastica 😍😍😍

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Simplemente maravilloso.¡¡

[@ronnieince4568]

One of the great interpretations along with that of Kirsten Flagstad , Lisa Della Casa and Jessye Norman .

[@lievdemontholon]

Majestueutissime!! on atteint la cîme où le rougeoiement de l'orchestre et cette voix immortelle interrogatrice préludent au schlafenzeit !! Strauss nous conduit au nirvana d'où l'âme cherche son au-delà.

[@francinesicard464]

+Alain FOUREL Bien dit.

[@voribo]

Magnifique, votre commentaire.

[@thierrycarmaux1385]

Fabuleux....

[@christophernewman5027]

Goosebumps, every time...

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Sublime música, y una interpretación exquisita..¡¡

[@MultiFinlayson]

Wild at Heart

[@fernandamachado8901]

Som e imagens de mãos dadas. Belissimo

[@alberg6290]

this sublime music transcends its category of lieder

[@sergiocd18]

Este lied se trata simplemente de contar el fin de una larga historia, la historia de nuestras propias vidas. De todos aquellos momentos que se perdieron en el tiempo como lágrimas en la lluvia.

[@stanley631h6]

Una joya la verdad

[@chiefslief1886]

Beautiful

[@RandomDudeOne]

Sailor Ripley you get some music on this radio this instant! I MEAN IT!!

[@graemedurie9094]

I have great trouble working deciding if I prefer this or the Jessye Norman account. Both beautiful beyond words.

[@lundilar]

Love both! They each bring a perfect rendition. You can't go wrong.

[@graemedurie9094]

@@lundilar Indeed.

[@belenaguilar2389]

Simplemente sublime...

[@marcosPRATA918]

Sentimentos profundos da existência.

[@fernandamachado8901]

Sublime! Eleva a alma

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Sublime tema..

[@lauremeunier9280]

Magnificent@

[@alfredobuglione5192]

Da Radio Amburgo nell'Autunno 45 ,primo disco fatto ascoltare da Rezzori x la rinascita della Germania,mentre da Monaco di Baviera Tomas Mann faceva la stessa cosa alla radio.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Sublime.¡¡¡

[@joyinhk3269]

Please let us know more about the images you have put to this great music. Thanks for sharing.

[@phoenix4165]

Schwarzkopf ended up trying to support herself on two sticks plus a wheelchair. Very sad for those who had listened to her for most of their lives.

[@philliphamilton3591]

A glorious rendition, pure magic, but depressing images.

[@hwh1946]

The two go together, Old age brings limitations physically but most times nt emotionally.

[@kabint]

Is it possible to just fade to black about 3 minutes before the ending?

[@prototropo]

If the highest of high art in Western Culture enjoyed its apices between 1452 (with the birth of Leonardo) and 1952 (when the Treaty of San Francisco terminated the occupation of Japan by victorious Allied forces of WW II, John Cage composed 4’33” and the first sex-transition surgery was performed in Copenhagen), then the “Four Last Songs” represent the flawless Autumnal gesture of the European Imperium.

[@almaclarendon7682]

Tasteless photographs do no do any credit to this beautiful music and voice! The most sensitive lyrics by Eichendorff are massacred by the tastelessly chosen photographs.

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Richard Strauss' quintessential swam song.

[@clintockmaconaghie3763]

We have, of need and joy, wandered hand in hand; From wandering rest we now amidst the silent land. The valleys fold around themselves before the deepening gloom Alone two larks still soar Rapt in the twilight perfume. Stand here and let them whirl, soon enough comes their rest Would that we not lose ourselves within this loneliness. O utter silent peace! Suffused with this sun's last breath Of wandering grow we so weary - Is this our sense of death?

[@philipkraushaar738]

hallo Q2

[@johnfalkenstine8377]

Consider your world ruined. The opera in Munich where you worked is rubble. So is the rest of the beautiful city. Your relatives have been murdered in a concentration camp, also your friends and you're old in failing health. You gather yourself up and write four songs of beauty.

[@Hagen-nu2pp]

Seufz...for ever and ever...her masters voice......absolute... Ihre beste leistung...schwarzkopf.... Akon

[@britswitz]

Mein letztes Lied

[@oogleblerp]

Which orchestra?

[@manuelprietohernandez4820]

Radio Simphonie Orchestra Berlín

[@lapintelaurent7956]

2:33...

[@lapintelaurent7956]

5:33...

[@geroelze1700]

Strauß äußerte einmal: Die Lieder sind mir das liebste was ich gemacht habe! Die vier letzten Lieder ragen in meinen Augen heraus. Er verwendete die Opernerfahrungen aus Jahrzehnten, jedoch mit kammermusikalischer Beschränkung! Strauß wandelte sich immer wieder und das passte einigen Leuten nicht z.B. Pfitzner.

[@Tamaras-scissorhandsAu]

Good job 👍👍 Might you have a brief look on our video and also let me know what you believe as I would say you might have an eye for this

[@pirosbalvi8598]

wonderful, but the photos are very inappropriate!

[@ursus1302]

Es geht nicht schöner.

[@ludolooverie917]

ontroered

[@burgundypoint]

The wheelchair ruined it. It's not supposed to be about misery

[@rainerhugo]

Schwarzkopf was undoubtedly a world class Strauss singer. But she is unable to compete with American born Jessye Norman.

[@Lammergeir]

Gosh, what a misunderstanding! Schwarzkopf reigns Supreme in these Four Last Songs

[@burgundypoint]

The wheelchair ruined it. It's not supposed to be about misery

[@stevetutty2818]

Life is about cradles & wheelchairs and everything else. Have you lived at all?