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Five Songs for Voice and Orchestra to Postcard Texts
Song Cycle by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935)
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Seele, wie bist du schöner, tiefer, nach Schneestürmen. Auch du hast sie, gleich der Natur. Und über beiden liegt noch ein trüber Hauch, eh' das Gewölk sich verzog!
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- by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg
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Soul, you're more beautiful, deeper, after snowstorms. Like Nature, you have storms, too. And over both still lie a melancholy air like clouds that disperse but slowly.
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Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen den Wald? Alles rastet, blinkt und ist schöner als zuvor. Siehe, Fraue, auch du brauchst Gewitterregen!
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Have you seen the woods after rainstorms? Everything reposes, gleams and is lovelier than before See, Women, rainstorms are necessary too.
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Über die Grenzen des All blicktest du sinnend hinaus; Hattest nie Sorge um Hof und Haus! Leben und Traum vom Leben, plötzlich ist alles aus - - -. Über die Grenzen des All blickst du noch sinnend hinaus!
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Beyond the borders of all we know, you ponder thoughtfully, You'd never worry about hearth and home. Yet Life, and the dream of life - it can suddenly vanish. Beyond the borders of all we know, you ponder thoughtfully.
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Nichts ist gekommen, nichts wird kommen für meine Seele. Ich habe gewartet, gewartet, oh - gewartet! Die Tage werden dahinschleichen, und umsonst wehen meine aschblonden seidenen Haare um mein bleiches Antlitz!
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Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul. I have waited, waited, oh waited ! The days are creeping past, they flutter away. My ashblond silken hair blows pointlessly over my sallow face.
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Hier ist Friede. Hier weine ich mich aus über alles! Hier löst sich mein unfaßbares, unermeßliches Leid, das mir die Seele verbrennt ... Siehe, hier sind keine Menschen, keine Ansiedlungen. Hier ist Friede! Hier tropft Schnee leise in Wasserlachen ...
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Here's Peace. Here I can cry my heart out. Here the incomprehensible immense pain that burns my soul can find release. See, here there are no people, no settlements. Here's Peace! Here the snow falls gently into flowing water.
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