Beim Schlafengehen is the third song in Strauss's song cycle, The Four Last Songs. Written just before his death, these songs are set to poems written by Herman Hesse, Joseph Karl Benedikt & Freiherr von Eichendorff. They are widely recognized among the most beautiful music ever written for the soprano voice. 

Vocals by Stacie Eirich, piano by Tom Jesty. Recorded in isolation in 2021, following an online masterclass lead by The Choir of the Earth & Ms. Lucy Cox. 

Thanks for listening! I’m a mom who sings & writes poetry and prose. 
Links: 
https://www.stacieeirich.com/
https://www.choiroftheearth.com/

*Text & Translation below. 

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Beim Schlafengehen 

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.

Authorship by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Beim Schlafengehen", written 1911.

While going to sleep

Now that the day has made me so tired,
my dearest longings shall
be accepted kindly by the starry night
like a weary child.

Hands, cease your activity,
head, forget all of your thoughts;
all my senses now
will sink into slumber.

And my soul, unobserved,
will float about on untrammeled wings
in the enchanted circle of the night,
living a thousandfold more deeply.

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*Text & translation is from: https://www.lieder.net/

Beim Schlafengehen (While Going to Sleep): The Four Last Songs, composed by Richard Strauss

World Gone Wrong

i wasn't going for an ancient egypt vibe but it happened anyway. maybe i'm channeling thoth or something

art by 6557056: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/egypt-woman-queen-nefertiti-2824582/

abydos

Recorded on one take, this acoustic guitar solo piece is a brutally honest interpretation of the seriously hard time that I had a few years ago. As is the case in all of Sorrot music, Untitled Sad Song works as a musical diary of my life in that particular moment, when the music is being created. Backround ambience was created by a field recording of a real-life storm, recorded in autumn 2021.

Untitled Sad Song

Mi amigo Oscar me envió una base, sobre todo rítmica, más los pequeños archivos de voces y me pidió hacer mi versión de la canción. Utilizando parte de su ritmo y todas las voces, aunque colocadas de forma diferente a la original, añadiendo baterias, sintes y bajos...salío ésto. Espero os guste. No olvidéis compartirlo.
DELAFLOR

Fuego (OSCAR GUERRERO "RAOS")REMIX BY DELAFLOR)

This is a track by Alec Koff ,  trackhttps://soundcloud.com/aleckoff , the song is so great that I allowed myself to add something from myself :) piano and vocal.
It is not my intention to impersonate the author nor get paid for this

Original piece - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SxpCvMV2yM

https://youtu.be/MyeBAYl50NA

Impress the World ( Alec Koff , rmx dj.PietrekB. )

A lovely bright thing on a stormy night
Entered into heaven which was not polite
"You came too soon" said the palace shade
"You flower and fruit and then you fade"

You fly too soon you fly too high
You know your life is standing by
Go work your clay and get ready for the way
Of stone and sky

Stone and sky

To be a lovely thing on slender wing
Or a horned god prowling for prey
In a thrashing fit to do the big fat "It"
While every way we go is pain

You wake to pain you wake to gray
And wonder how you came this way
You serpent bird - too low too high
For stone and sky

Stone and sky

(Too low, honey... Too high... Don't you know how to fly?)

A little bright light in a stormy sky
Scanning hell to heaven with the serpent's eye
And the bird's wing - "that's the only way
Bright young thing", said the shade

You crawl and fly you crawl and fly
You move according to the signs
You move it in the middle way
Of stone and sky

Stone and sky

Stone And Sky

Down on Fiddlers Green

Down On Fiddlers Green

Christian Levitan (flow): Title, original melody composition (the orchestration synth. through line chord progression)
Rick Shearer (drive): Mix, cover design, added percussion, guitars/sitars, vocal chants (all abstracted and restructured/composed from sound loops)
Christian Levitan on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/christianlevitan/tracks
Thank you Christian and all who support and listen!
Gate To Reborn ©2022 Levitan, Shearer

Gate To Reborn - Christian Levitan and Rick Shearer

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Beim Schlafengehen (While Going to Sleep): The Four Last Songs, composed by Richard Strauss

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