R. Strauss
Beim Schlafengehn, R. Strauss, Song 3 of 4, 4 Last Songs
Laura McAlpine - mezzo soprano, David Briggs - organ, Derek Wong - video, J Deschamps - film editor
Beim Schlafengehn - At Bedtime, Poem by Herman Hesse
Now the day has made me tired,
my ardent desire shall
be accepted kindly by the starry night
like a tired child.
Hands, stop all your work,
forehead, forget all your thinking;
all my senses now yearn to sink into slumber.
And my soul, unguarded,
wants to float freely to hover around in the magic
circle of the night, to live deeply, and a thousand
times, and thousandfold.