Jessye Norman’s performance with Kurt Mazur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings me to tears every time I listen to it. We will never hear her like again.

The 9th Wonder of the world and a force of Nature she is 💜💜💜💜💜👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Rest in Power Jessye I'll never forget You

Every-time I hear Miss Norman singing this piece; I literally cry

Rest in power Ms Norman.

Sublime. I won't compare her to anyone, but give her her due in her own right. Bravissima.

Such a wonderful face to watch as she sings. Then that smile and those beautiful teeth. Stunning performance.

Jessye Norman singing Strauss is a beautiful thing

Rest in Peace, Beautiful

I've just discovered this. I have never heard a voice soar like this. Exquisite. One of the most beautiful interpretations I have ever heard.

I'm still in the air...after 5 minutes of having listened to this song! The pure definition of beauty!

Amazing! She had this voice since she was about 9 or 10 years of age. Velvet. Pure Gold.

No words for this perfection.......one must just listen...........

Exquisite. The artistic restraint, the understatement, the razor-sharp control on approaching ascending and descending notes, especially at the extremes of the vocal range, is a marvel. Just wonderful: pure beauty. IMAO. Thank you for sharing this.

I have the Mazur recording as well. It was the first Jessye Norman vinyl recording of her's that I had ever purchased, must be sometime in the 80's. When I first played side one it not only made the hairs on my neck stand up but brought tears to my eyes, as it still does to this day. She has a unique voice, so powerful yet so delicate and fluid.

This is just so beautiful.

She just makes me fall in love with Strauss all over again!

An extraordinary performance! Miss Norman's voice in this video does not have the sheer power it had in earlier performances of the same piece, but it has taken on a more fragile element of pathos and tragedy that is deeply moving. This is due perhaps to the personal challenges she was facing in her life at that time. I enjoyed this tremendously. Thanks for posting.

oh my god. she's divine !!!

1:20 Richard Strauss, superstar!

the exciting Strauss that Norman dominates with spectacular genius, without a doubt with a musical force that impresses, in addition to the most impeccable interpretive behavior. . . .

Just perfect ... Just enormous... RIP Dame Norman

Hace tanto tiempo que la sigo....en el 1998 en Paris en el desfile por el bicentenario de la Reolución Francesa, ella apareció sublime en un carruaje....luego la seguí por todas partes, sobre todo en grabaciones...Excelsa voz "

@franciscorivero8538

3 жыл бұрын

Fue en 1989.

Jessye Norman, para mim a melhor voz lírica feminina que já ouvi, os agudos não são estridentes, um prazer imenso ouvi-la.

Voz divina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

La maravillosa voz de Jessye canta exquisitamente "September" --R. Strauss.

mystical Norman.

Bravo!!!!! Thanks for sharing!

it's not necessarry to understand the words,her voice tells you the story. All you need to do is surrender

oh golly, profoundly moving, a supreme artist Ms Norman

Human perfection!!!

Richard　Straus is romantic! Ｉlove jessye!

Sublime! Quel beaute mon dieu!

❤🏆

This is so good, it is unreal.

bravooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

mindblowingly wonderfull,i m in heaven

@Aldobrandini i absolutely agree with u. i have listened to many different interprations....but none is like J.N. Love & Peace from Germany, H.

Ethereal. Simply.

Ihre version hört sich schön zu mir, Jessye! Wunderbar!

jessie norman. you make me doubt there is a god in heaven.... she must be on earth right there

How　beautiful!

SIEMPRE ❤️😘😜😄

Am I the only one to whom seems that the very first bars are actually a musical quote from Götterdämmerung? From act I, scene III, when evening falls. But maybe just a coincidence.

@avarmadillo, what?! Jessye's interpretation of Strauss' four last songs are by far one of the BEST available. For you to make such a comment should certainly be sign that you're going deaf. Have a doctor check on you, please.

Haunting

Magistral voz

Sublim!!!

❤💫❤

i think its a little to slow and heavy, but the emotion beats it all...LOVE HER!!!

It's not so beautiful to see her way of singing, but it's beautiful to listen to her!!

@MrDarknesslover

3 жыл бұрын

Then close your eyes, and shut up

@kingorthy you gotta hand it to Schwarzkopf though. Not only is he a great soprano but he also led the coalition forces during Desert Storm.

5:40

Difficult to believe that Strauss wrote the 4 Last Songs in 1948. Those and DER ROSENKAVALIER (1909-10) are my favorite works by Strauss, and therefore, in my top ten musical works of all time. (I don't usually rank music that way, but I have such strong feelings about Strauss.) I still think Schwarzkopf is best in the Songs and ROSENKAVALIER.

@1.56 Um... what? How do you do that?

Муза...

@nieuwbooy Why on earth did you bother,silly!

This is the piece Lloyd Webber is alleged to have stolen/taken the title track for Jesus Christ Superstar from...?I don't hear it

@grantmalone

5 жыл бұрын

1:22

@BernardProfitendieu

3 жыл бұрын

he stole most of 'his' best known melodies - a real bottom feeder Listen to Puccini's La Fanciulla del West for a real laugh, note for note theft of one of the main themes of the opera

I love Jessye and her voice is well suited to this, but it is too slow for me. I have an excellent recording (live) with Eva Marton that is fantastic. Of all the 4 Last Songs, September without a doubt is the one with the most "sparkle" and it loses some of that when it's too slow. ;)

Schwartzkopf is so boring;laks of emotion, not to mention that never miss a note.

Wonderful voice--but not fit for this music. This is really chamber music. She sings the "song" well, but not the meaning of the text--My take best interpretations: Renee Fleming on youtube and very best: Elisabeth Schwartzkopf with Szell and the Berlin Phil (her last recording of it)---NOT found here on youtube; absolutely astounding coloristic and shape mastery of the voice for expressive purposes. Learn the German too--it's critical to really appreciate Schwartzkofp. Sell your bed and buy it.

@jonivy98

Ай бұрын

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