I recommended this video of Renee Fleming singing the 3rd of Strauss' "Four Last Songs" in a comment today over at Everything is Interesting. The music so perfectly matches my mood and our dreary weather here, I decided to make it my blog post. The Hesse poem on which the song is based, with English translation, can be found at the Wikipedia page here.
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I think of this as a gift. Thank you.
So beautiful!
Didn't know you were a Strauss lieder fan, Gracie.
Great stuff.
[ Biiiig lieder fan here; it chagrined my late mother NO end, that I sang it relentlessly...she abhored the stuff]
You're welcome, Julie. I hope it gave you pleasure.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Mary. For me, it echoes some of the same feeling I got from your snow poem.
I love lieder up to a point, Chaya. I have my limits. BTW, Dave went to Tristan und Isolde at the Met last night, all by himself. I'm a little sad I couldn't be there--but only a little. Five hours of Wagner is, well, a LOT of Wagner.
Goose bumps.
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