David Lynch's Strauss

David Lynch on KCRW:

I’m going to go to Richard Strauss. We’re getting into long haired stuff now. I was in a really swank Mercedes Benz in Germany one night. Black, deep black and snow flakes the size of silver dollars coming down. And I'd been left in the car -- I forget who I was with but they had gone into a building and I had been left in the car -- and I turned on the radio and I heard this thing. And it thrilled my soul. This particular piece of music at that particular time, I saw in my minds eye, my four year old son coming down a flight of stairs and it made me start crying.

Opera Chic's favorite Im Abendrot?

All due respect to Renée's choice of Schwarzkopf, but by far Lisa Della Casa's "Vier Letze Lieder" is the closest to Opera Chic's heart. It's not on YouTube, but La Jessye is.

And she does thrill your soul, too.

Comments

[Marshie]

David Lynch has it made it heaven. He ought to hire Renee Fleming for the soundtrack. After all, he knows and does **perversity** really well. And she is a master of the genre as well, no need to say.

[A Real Cad]

Finally we see Lynch's fourth wife, the lingerie model...

[Michael]

Yes - for me della Casa, Jurinac, Tomowa-Sintow and Norman are the best 4LS

[Peter]

I'm not surprised; Lynch used "Im Abendrot" for the opening credits of Wild at Heart.

[Roaming 49er]

Definitely Della Casa and Norman, the latter because it was the first recording of them that I ever heard. These songs are my faves of all time!