Descripción de Glenn Gould: Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder - Beim Schlafengehen:

Glenn Gould plays Strauss "Beim Schlafengehen" (the third of the Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)) with soprano Lois Marshall. Text: German: Nun der Tag mich müd' gemacht, soll mein sehnliches Verlangen freundlich die gestirnte Nacht wie ein müdes Kind empfangen. Hände, laßt von allem Tun, Stirn, vergiß du alles Denken, alle meine Sinne nun wollen sich in Schlummer senken. Und die Seele unbewacht, will in freien Flügen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben. English: Now I am wearied of the day; all my ardent desires shall gladly succumb to the starry night like a sleepy child. Hands, stop all your work; brow, forget all your thoughts; all my being now yearns to sink into sleep. And my unguided spirit wishes to fly up freely into night's magic sphere to live deeply and thousandfold. -- Further info on this recording from user twolegsnotail: According to'Wondrous Strange': "His [Gould's] third program, Richard Strauss: A Personal View, broadcast in October 1962, was a sort of replay of his all-Strauss Stratford concert of the previous year, and once again his performances, including the first movement of the Violin Sonata (with Schumsky), songs with Lois Marshall,and music from the Bourgeois gentilhomme Suite,illustrated a polemical defence of Strauss' style." Thank you for this helpful information, twolegsnotail!