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Schoenberg "Gurrelieder" - Stokowski conducts

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Channel: adam28xx · 2012 · Music

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Stokowski opened the 1961 Edinburgh International Festival with a performance of Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder." He had given this work its US Premiere in 1932 and this Edinburgh performance was the last time he conducted it. We hear the Prelude, depicting a sunset, followed by the first of Waldemaar's songs, sung by James McCracken. (From a Guild Historical CD: GHCD 2388/89.) 

Now stills the twilight every sound
On Land and Sea,
The Far-sailing clouds are anchored now
In harbor by Heaven's lee.
Peace hath closed the woodland portals
Silently, at Night's behest,
And the Sea's long rolling waves
Have cradled themselves to their rest.
The westward skies are golden,
Day sheds his dying beams,
The morrow's radiant glory,
On ocean's bed he dreams.
No sigh is borne from out the forest,
And silent stand leaf and boughm
Nor falls the faintest sound on the ear;
Rest now, my soul, rest thou.
All power is lost in the magic
Of the dreams that float over me,
Every thought within my heart is still,
All peaceful, sorrow-free.

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