The Magic Lantern

Franz Schubert / Rosamunde, D. 797: Romance, Der vollmond strahlt (The Full Moon Shines)

sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

*Recorded at a performance in Carnegie Hail, New York on November 25th, 1956.

Franz Schubert / An den Mond (“Was schauest du so hell…?”), song for voice & piano, D. 468
performed by Lucia Popp (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)

Edgard Varèse / Un grand sommeil noir (‘A deep black sleep’ from 1906, orchestration by Antony Beaumont, commissioned by Riccardo Chailly and RCOA)

Performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & conducted by Riccardo Chailly - Mireille Delunsch soprano · François Kerdoncuff piano

This is the only one of Varèse’s early published works to survive. It is a setting of a poem by Verlaine (originally) for voice & piano made whilst he was a student in Widor’s composition class at the Paris Conservatoire.

A deep black sleep
A deep black sleep
descends upon my life
sleep, all hope,
sleep, all desire!

I no longer know anything,
I am losing any memory
of good or of evil…
oh woeful tale.

I am a cradle
which a hand is rocking
in the hollow of a grave:
silence, silence!

Paul Verlaine 1844-1896

Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs: II. ‘Beim Schlafengehen’ (‘Going to Sleep’)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Gundula Janowitz, soprano

(Thank you, i12bent & stolentime)

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835): I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830) - Oh! quante volte (Giulietta)

Natalie Dessay, soprano

Concerto Köln, Evelino Pidó

(libretto)

(John William Waterhouse: Juliet, 1898)

(Gorgeous, thank you, fuckyeahclassical & zveneczi)

Zbigniew Preisner / Van Den Budenmayer Concerto In E Minor (SBI 152) Version 1798

Zbigniew Preisner has admitted that Van den Budenmayer is a pseudonym he and Krzysztof Kieslowski invented “because we both loved the Netherlands. Encyclopaedias and dictionaries later asked for biographical information, at which point we realized that he continues to live.” (from an interview with Vincent Remy in Telerama in 1993).