rosaponselleart's video: Emmy Destinn - Tr ume - 1908 with subtitle cleaned by Maldoror

Emmy Destinn, soprano (1878 – 1930) Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder / Träume -------------- The Wesendonck Lieder is a song cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed. The cycle is a setting of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Wagner's patrons. Lyrics: Dreams Say, what wondrous dreams hold my soul captive, and have not, like bubbles, disappeared into darkest night? Dreams, which in every hour of every day beautifully bloom and with their heavenly imitations blissfully float through my mind? Dreams, that like glorious rays penetrate the soul, there to leave an everlasting impression: All-forgetting, single-minded! Dreams, as when the spring sun kisses blossoms from the snow, that to undreamed-of bliss the new day can greet them, So they grow, so they flower, dreamily casting their scent, softly fade upon your breast, and then sink into their grave. ----------- Träume Sag', welch' wunderbare Träume Halten meinen Sinn umfangen, Daß sie nicht wie leere Schäume Sind in ödes Nichts vergangen? Träume, die in jeder Stunde, Jedem Tage schöner blühn Und mit ihrer Himmelskunde Selig durchs Gemüte ziehn? Träume, die wie hehere Strahlen In die Selle sich versenken Dort ein ewig Bild zu malen; Allvergessen, Eingedenken! Träume, wie wenn Fruhlingsonne Aus dem Schnee die Blüten küßt, Daß zu nie geahnter Wonne Sie der neue Tage begrüßt, Daß sie wachsen, daß sie blühen, Träumend spenden ihren Duft, Sanft an deiner Brust verglühen