Schwarzkopf sings - Four Last Songs : Frühling, September, Im Abendrot .. (Century’s rec.)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) New Mastering / Complete Recordings by .
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Vier letze Lieder / Conductor (C.) : George Szell *
Frühling / Hesse (00:00)
September / Hesse (03:39)
Beim Schlafengehen / Hesse (09:00)
Im Abendrot / Eichendorff (14:24)
Vier letze Lieder / C. : Otto Ackermann ***
Frühling (22:44)
September (26:11)
Beim Schlafengehen (30:19)
Im Abendrot (34:51)
12 Lieder / C. : George Szell * / **
Wiegenlied, , No.l Dehmel (42:04)
Waldseligkeit, , No.l Dehmel (46:49)
Meinem Kinde, , No.3 Falke (50:05)
Morgen, , No.4 Mackay (52:55)
Violin Solo : Edith Peinemann
Das Bächlein, , No.I Goethe? (56:42)
Das Rosenband, , No.l Klopstock (58:44)
Winterweihe, , No.4 Henckell (1:01:57)
Muttertändelei, , No.2 Bürger (1:05:13)
Zueignung, Op. 10, No.l Von Gilm (1:07:19)
Freundliche Vision, , No.l Bierbaum (1:09;11)
Die heiligen drei Könige, , No.6 Heine (1:12:18)
Ruhe, meine Seele, , No.l Henckell (1:18:57)
Capriccio Opera / C. : Otto Ackermann ***
Schlußszene / Closing scene: «Morgen mittag um elf» (1:22:49)
Arabella Opera / C. : Lovro von Matacic ***
Akt 1 : « Ich danke, Fräulein» Arabella/Zdenka (1:40:29)
Akt 1 : « Mein Elemer! » Arabella/Zdenka (1:48:48)
Akt 2 : «Sie wollen mich heiraten» Arabella/Mandryka (1:56:42)
Akt 3 : « Das war sehr gut» Arabella/Mandryka (2:05:33)
Sopran / Zdenka : Anny Felbermayer
Bariton / Mendryka : Josef Metternich
Sopran : Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
*Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin
**London Symphony Orchestra
***Philharmonia Orchestra
Recorded in 1953-1969
New Mastering in 2020 by AB for CMRR
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Under the impetus of her husband, Walter Legge, the greatest artistic director in the history of the record, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf recorded at the dawn of the microgroove the first version of Strauss’s Four Last Song under the direction of Otto Ackermann. While the engraving she later remade with Georg Szell places greater emphasis on the setting sun illuminating a dying world, the first version is imbued with a vocal freshness, a flayed sensitivity; every word, every syllable, every bend in the phrase, every bend in the song having reached perfection, absolute perfection.
It is as if she whispers these words, these phrases, for herself. We must follow this voice second by second, its intimate pulse, this moving confession that passes through it - confession of everything that embraces life, sadness, distress, love, and time, labile time, flowing time, until its disappearance, the voice accompanying it one last time - until evaporation.
The last song of a Strauss contemplating death that comes with an astonishing serenity, these Four Last Lieders, composed at the age of eighty-four, are his most disturbing and ecstatic pages. The last verse of the last Lieder is like a holiday given to life: “Ist dies etwa der Tod?“ (Is this death?)
The voice blends imperceptibly into the shroud of the orchestra, which echoes the symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration, written sixty years earlier, and rises to the body, to the face, erasing it...
*COMMENTAIRE COMPLET : VOIR PREMIER COMMENTAIRE ÉPINGLÉ.*
Ce fut à l’âge de six ans que Richard Strauss composa sa première pièce vocale, un chant de Noël. Il apprit le piano et composa d’autres pièces vocales avec piano. Il épousa une chanteuse et l’accompagna dans des récitals de chant publics. Devenu chef d’orchestre, il composa ses lieds avec orchestre c’était alors en vogue pour remplacer un concerto dans un concert tel que nous l’avons ici. Il devint à la fois compositeur et remarquable chef d’orchestre d’opéras tout en continuant d’écrire des pièces vocales. Ce furent les Quatre Derniers Lieder (où son amour pour la voix de soprano avec grand orchestre s’exprime avec force) qui couronnèrent son œuvre.
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