15 Gedichte aus Das Buch der hängenden Gärten [15 Poems
from The book of the hanging gardens], op. 15 (1908/09)
(voice, piano)
(text: Stefan George)
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Unterm Schutz von dichten Blättergründen [In the shade of
thickmeshed bush and tree]
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Hain in diesen Paradiesen [Groves in blissful paradises]
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Als Neuling trat ich ein in dein Gehege [A callow youth when first I
came to know you]
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Da meine Lippen reglos sind und brennen [Now that my lips are mute with
shame and burning]
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Saget mir, auf welchem Pfade [Tell me then what path she takes
today]
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Jedem Werke bin ich fürder tot [Now I’m dead to duty and
men’s deeds]
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Angst und Hoffen wechselnd mich beklemmen [Fear and hope in turn claw
at my throat]
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Wenn ich heut nicht deinen Leib berühre [If today I do not touch
your body]
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Streng ist uns das Glück und Spröde [Austere is our joy and
stony]
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Das schöne Beet beträcht ich mir im Harren [My waiting eyes
rest on the lovely flowerbed]
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Als wir hinter dem beblühmten Tore [When we hidden behind the
flowergrown gate]
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Wenn sich bei heiliger Ruh in tiefen Matten [When in blessed rest in
deepslung hammocks]
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Du lehnest wider eine Silberweide [You lean against a silver willow]
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Sprich nicht immer von dem Laub [Speak no more about the leaves]
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Wir bevölkerten die abenddüstern Lauben [We blissfully strolled
through the evening-darkling foliage]
- Erica Storm, voice;
Mosco Carner, piano (recorded:
1938?) (5th & 12th poems)
(1:16; 1:54)
- *Columbia (Australia) DO 1915
(post 1938?) 10" 78-rpm disc
- *Columbia (England) DB 1787
(1939?) 10" 78-rpm disc
- Columbia CM 361 (DB 1303
(CA 16713)) (pre 1940) 10" 78-rpm disc
- Belva Kibler, mezzo-soprano;
Gerhard Albersheim, piano
(2:18 + 1:23 + 1:53 + 1:26 + 1:05 + 1:12 + 1:04 + 0:46 + 1:28 + 2:03 + 2:47
+ 2:07 + 1:35 + 0:52 + 4:07 = 26:06) (continuous play 27:30)
- *Lyrichord LL 42 mono (1953)
LP
- Lyric Art 42 (pre 1986) LP
- Lina Dauby, soprano;
Paul Collaer, piano (2:01 + 1:20
+ 1:38 + 1:18 + 1:05 + 1:07 + 0:57 + 0:39 + 1:25 + 3:03 + 2:20 + 1:51 +
1:26 + 0:57 + 3:59 = 25:06)
- Margot Hinnenberg-Lefèbre,
voice; Helmut Roloff,
piano (1:56 + 1:13 + 1:34 + 1:13 + 1:03 + 1:06 + 0:53 + 0:33 + 1:27 + 2:18
+ 2:18 + 1:38 + 1:32 + 0:45 + 4:19 = 23:48)
-
Ethel Casey, soprano; Walter
Golde, piano (5th poem) (1:26)
- Bethany Beardslee, voice;
Robert Helps, piano (2:26 + 1:18
+ 1:44 + 1:28 + 1:08 + 0:59 + 1:05 + 0:40 + 1:36 + 2:05 + 2:41 + 1:57 +
1:27 + 0:42 + 5:00 = 26:16)
- *Son Nova 2 mono (1962)
LP
- *Son Nova 2 stereo (1962) LP
- Colette Herzog, voice;
Jacqueline Robin Bonneau, piano
(recorded: Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France)
(1:57 + 1:06 + 1:35 + 1:08 + 0:55 + 0:59 + 0:53 + 0:37 + 1:28 + 2:07 + 2:04
+ 1:41 + 1:15 + 0:35 + 4:30 = 22:50) (continuous play 24:30)
- Carla Henius
, soprano; Aribert Reimann,
piano (recorded: Grosser Sendesaal des Kopenhagener Rundfunks, Copenhagen,
Denmark, July 1963) (2:15
+ 1:23 + 1:35 + 1:34 + 0:55 + 1:05 + 1:05 + 0:38 + 1:30 + 2:18 + 2:50 +
1:36 + 1:30 + 0:39 + 4:42 = 25:35)
- Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano;
Glenn Gould, piano (recorded:
30th Street Studio, New York, NY, 10-11
June 1965) (2:31 + 1:17 + 1:38 + 1:23 + 1:07 + 0:58 + 1:05 + 0:54 +
1:20 + 2:12 + 3:13 + 1:52 + 1:29 + 0:36 + 5:55 = 27:49) (continuous play
28:47)
- Mati Palm, bass;
Tarsina Alango, piano (11th &
14th poems) (2:23; 0:49)
- Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano;
Gilbert Kalish, piano (recorded:
Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, November
1974) (2:13 + 1:10 + 1:24 + 1:14 + 1:02 + 1:00 + 0:51 + 0:31 + 1:31
+ 1:59 + 2:44 + 1:53 + 1:34 + 0:34 + 4:48 = 24:28) (continuous play 25:48)
- Roswitha Trexler, soprano;
John Tilbury, piano (recorded:
Studio Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig, East Germany, 1978)
(2:15 + 1:25 + 1:35 + 1:15 + 1:00 + 1:00 + 0:55 + 0:45 + 1:20 + 2:00 + 2:30
+ 1:50 + 1:35 + 0:40 + 4:20 = 24:25)
- Charlotte Lehmann,
soprano; Werner Genuit,
piano (2:11 + 1:36 + 1:35 + 1:29 + 0:58 + 1:12 + 0:56 + 0:43 + 1:34 + 2:23
+ 2:51 + 1:52 + 1:20 + 0:49 + 4:39 = 26:08)
- Linda Larson, soprano;
Steve Larson, piano (recorded:
Ann Arbor, MI) (2nd poem) (1:32)
- *Perspectives of New Music 25
stereo (1987) cassette
- Ingrid Schmithüsen,
soprano; Thomas Palm,
piano (recorded: Eberthalle, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) (2:27 + 1:48 + 1:41
+ 1:37 + 1:15 + 1:23 + 1:11 + 0:40 + 1:54 + 2:25 + 3:42 + 2:30 + 1:59 +
0:45 + 7:17 = 33:02)
- Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano;
Ursula Oppens, piano (recorded:
Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1990)
(2:33 + 1:27 + 1:35 + 1:43 + 1:17 + 1:02 + 1:04 + 0:44 +1:41 + 2:10 +2:36
+ 2:07 + 1:41 + 0:37 + 4:45 = 27:54)
- *Music & Arts CD-650 stereo
DDD (1991) CD
- Julie Kaufmann, soprano;
Irwin Gage, piano (recorded: Plenarsaal
der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Residenz, Munich, Germany, 27-31
July 1992) (2:00 + 1:22 + 1:36 + 1:29 + 1:04 + 1:05 + 0:58 + 0:39 +
1:37 + 2:06 + 2:39 + 2:02 + 0:43 + 1:42 + 4:50 = 26:49)
- Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Oldfather, piano (recorded: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 155th Street & Broadway, New York, NY, September 2001) (2:23 + 1:23 + 1:43 + 1:36 + 1:08 + 1:07 + 1:08 + 0:43 + 1:34 + 2:07 + 2:36 + 1:57 + 1:38 + 0:49 + 4:45 = 26:38)
- Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano; Iain Burnside, piano (recorded: The Warehouse, London, England, 5 & 7 April 2002) (2:18 + 1:30 + 1:35 + 1:23 + 0:59 + 1:07 + 0:57 + 0:47 + 1:39 + 2:20 + 2:36 + 2:06 + 1:39 + 0:42 + 4:32 = 24:10)
- *Black Box BBM1072 stereo DDD (2002) CD