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.