Richard Strauss: 5 Lieder op.77 (1928) "Gesänge des Orients" - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Richard Strauss: 5 Lieder op.77 (1928) - Gesänge des Orients Based on poems by Hans Bethge inspired from Persian and Chinese texts Hans Bethge (1876–1946), after Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāz (1326–1390) Persian poet 1. Ihre Augen 00:00 2. Schwung 02:29 3. Liebesgeschenke 04:04 4. Die Allmächtige 07:30 5. Huldigung 11:08 1. 00:00 (Deine gewölbten Brauen, o Geliebte) Ḥāfiẓ / Bethge 2. 02:29 (Gebt mir meinen Becher! Seht, er überstrahlt) Ḥāfiẓ / Bethge 3. 04:04 (Ich pflückte eine kleine Pfirsichblüte) Die Chinesische Flöte / Bethge 4. 07:30 (Die höchste Macht der Erde sitzt auf keinem Thron) Ḥāfiẓ / Bethge 5. 11:08 (Die Perlen meiner Seele) Ḥāfiẓ / Bethge Baryton: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Piano: Gerald Moore EMI 1969 Xāwje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hafez and as "Hafiz", was a Persian poet, whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as a pinnacle of Persian literature. Was a Persian lyric poet and panegyrist. The Gesänge des Orients were composed in 1928, shortly after Die Aegyptische Helena, and are settings of adaptations from the Persian and the Chinese by Hans Bethge, whose anthology Die chinesische Flöte had already inspired Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. The change in style from Strauss’s earlier songs is marked, with a generally more ascetic palette of colour and a quasi-oriental application of ornament, especially in the first and fourth songs, each of which contemplates an aspect of the beloved. All five songs are vertiginously high, and originally intended for tenor, though interestingly dedicated to Strauss’s beloved Elisabeth Schumann and her conductor–husband Karl Alwin.