Beim Schlafengehen

Tiny Kitten blisses out to her fifth Im Abendrot of the day

Sena Jurinac, Stockholm Phil, Fritz Busch (1951)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orch, Otto Ackermann (1953)
Lisa della Casa, Wiener Phil, Karl Böhm (1953)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Berlin RSO, George Szell (1966)
Leontyne Price, New Philharmonia Orch, Erich Leinsdorf (1973)
Gundula Janowitz, Berliner Phil, Herbert von Karajan (1973)
Montserrat Caballé, Orch Phil Strasbourg, Alain Lombard (1976)
Elisabeth Söderström, Royal Phil Orch, Antal Dorati (1976)
Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symph Orch, Andrew Davis (1978)
Lucia Popp, London Phil Orch, Klaus Tennstedt (1982)
Jessye Norman, Gewandhausorch Leipzig, Croque Monsieur (1982)
Cheryl Studer, Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli (1994)
Renée Fleming, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Eschenbach (1995)
Barbara Bonney, Malcolm Martineau (piano arrangement, 1998)
[in progress]

Some commentary on Deborah Voigt's performances last week with SF Symph here and here. Meanwhile, I have no words:

P.S. If I owe you an email, please accept my apologies. I'll be back in action soon, I hope.

Comments

[sfmike]

Jessye Norman's "Four Last Songs" is definitely my favorite of the three recorded versions I have (Jurinac and Lucia Popp are the others), but what in himmel's name is going on in that video? Is she miming Alexander Calder Going to Heaven?

[cedichou]

Soile Isokoski's Four last songs are great.

[M. C-]

what in himmel's name is going on in that video?

you see what i mean. i have no words to describe something so simultaneously weird and wondrous.

Soile Isokoski

patience, my friend, we're still in the '70s! (i got anxious and jumped forward a little bit with jessye...)

[Maury]

I used to have some sort of random ones, like I think Teresa Stich-Randall, that I could have contributed to this project.

[cedichou]

Then there's Christine Brewer/Donald Runnicles that got released 18 months ago. I haven't heard that one though. I'm curious to hear what you think of it.