Jessye Norman 🎼 RIP 🙏🏻

Jessye Norman 🌹 Rest in Peace

30 September 2019

Opera Singer Jessye Norman - One of the most renowned sopranos of the 20th Century - has died at the age of 74.

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Jessye Norman - Soprano

Richard Strauss - Vier letzte Lieder 

Four Last Songs
III. Beim Schlafengehen

 Hermann Hesse
Gewandhausorchester  Leipzig, l982
Conducted by Kurt Masur

Comments:

• Altonahh10 : Masur was always mentioned as one of the Strauss experts. And how he treats this delicate music is a sensation. Norman is a miracle. She is floating on the orchestra, her breath, the breaks, the transitions she creates are unique. And once again it seems as if Strauss knew that one day there would be a soprano who completely understood his intentions. Jessye Norman has it all.  
• Felipe Zava:  This is, in my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful and ethereal melodies of western music. Die Vier Letzten Lieder Strauss composed is indeed a masterpiece we have been blessed with.   
• enriqueali:  Truly one of the most sublime recordings of this wonderful song. There may be equally compelling versions of the entire set of four ( Schwarzkopf and Gundula Janowitz)  but I have to confess that for this one song  in particular, I always turn first to this Jessye Norman recording.   
• Ratty Woof:  Yes, the singing is superb beyond belief, but the violin solo from 2:00 0 is also utterly beautiful - this is a performance to treasure.  One of my desert island discs I think!

🇩🇪  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.

https://classicalmusicandmusicians.com/2019/05/04/richard-strauss-vier-letzte-lieder-four-last-songs/

🇬🇧   GOING TO SLEEP  🇺🇸

Now that day has tired me, my spirits long for starry night kindly to enfold them, like a tired child.
Hands, leave all your doing; brow, forget all your thoughts.
Now all my senses want to sink themselves in slumber.
And the soul unwatched, would soar in free flight, till in the magic circle of night it lives deeply and a thousandfold.

 

Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour,
Souris à nos ivresses,
Nuit plus douce que le jour,
Ô belle nuit d'amour!
Le temps fuit et sans retour
Emporte nos tendresses,
Loin de cet heureux séjour
Le temps fuit sans retour.
Zéphyrs embrasés,
Versez-nous vos caresses,
Zéphyrs embrasés,
Donnez-nous vos baisers!
vos baisers! vos baisers! Ah!