Estoy oyendo la versión de
Der Trunkene im Frühling por Carl Martin Oehmann que nos ha colgado Gino (muchísimas gracias).
La voz es, como bien dice él, de un marcadísimo color metálico que resulta abrumadoramente incisivo (lo que los ingleses llamarían "piercing voice"), aunque igualmente capaz de ejecutar unas medias voces arrebatadoras, creando un clima de dinámicas muy interesante (impresionante el ataque en pianissimo resuelto en crescendo que se marca en
Ich frag ihn, ob schon Frühling sei, Mir ist, mir ist als wie im Traum....). Sin duda, es el color perfecto para una obra de las características de DLvdE (aunque yo prefiera al Wunderlich de Klemperer, menos idóneo pero más atractivo), aunque he de decir que lo noto algo calante en la antepenúltima nota de cada estrofa ("
Den ganzen, lieben Tag! (...) Und schlafe wundervoll! (...) Am schwarzen Himmelsrund!)...
Destacar también, por supuesto, la cuidada (y curiosa) dirección de Schuricht (de nuevo me remito a
Ich frag ihn...), nunca había oído esos ritatdandos en los inicios de cada estrofa

... Fabuloso!
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Ahora, para el que le interese, los poemas que inspiraron a Mahler su
Canción de la Tierra:
Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
Li Bai
Tale of Sorrowful Song
Sorrow comes; sorrow comes
Host has wine; pour not yet
Listen to my singing a sorrowful song
Sorrow approaches, neither sob nor laugh
This world - nobody knows my heart
You have several measures of wine,
I have three-foot lute
Lute playing complements happy drinking
One drink equals thousand taels of gold.
Sorrow comes; sorrow comes
Everlasting as the heaven and the earth
Yet roomful of gold and jade shall not last
Hundred years of wealth amounts to what?
Everyone lives and dies only once
Lonely ape sits, howls the moon over the grave
Must empty this cup of wine in one gulp.
Der Einsame im Herbst
Qian Qi
Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night
Autumn sky, jade-like frost drifting
Northerly wind carries lotus fragrance
With love, weaving till the lonely lamp fades
Wipe tears, fond memory, long cold night
[Eaves edge, blue clouds pure like water
Rising moon, roosting birds caw; geese soar.
Whose young wife is weaving love birds on her loom?
Deeply concealed by silk curtain and inlaid screen
Listening to falling leaves by the white jade window
Pity the woman, chilled and alone without company.]
Von der Jugend
Li Bai
Banquet at Tao’s Family Pavilion
Winding path; private residence in quietude
Tall gate; great scholar’s home
Open pond mirrors reflection
Protruding forest trees intersperse with colorful flowers
Turquoise water hides the Spring sun
Green room camouflages evening amber
If strings and woodwinds are delightful to hear,
Unmatched by “golden valley”.
Von der Schönheit
Li Bai
Lotus-plucking Song
By Ruo-Ye* Brook, lotus-picking girls
Laughter and chatters among lotus flowers,
Sun shines on the painted beauty – clear in the water
Breeze lifts fragrant sleeves in the air
At the bank, who are the wandering young men
Gathering in threes and fives by the willows
Purple horses neighing pass, flowers fallen
Witnessing this, troubled and lament in vain.
Der Trunkene im Frühling
Li bai
Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
Earthly life resembles big dream
Pointless slaving oneself
Hence drunken all day
Crouching, disheartened, at the front pillar
Stare before the courtyard upon awakening
A bird sings among the flowers
Ask: what season is this?
The nightingale speaks of Spring breezes
Moved, one desires to sigh
Facing the wine, pour for oneself
Singing loudly, awaiting the moon
Song ends, feelings forgotten.
Der Abschied
Meng Haoran
Staying at Teacher’s Mountain Retreat, Awaiting a Friend in Vain
Dusk sun passes the western peak
Valleys have suddenly darkened
moon above pine trees chills the night
wind, brook, filled with clear sound
woodcutters are almost all home
birds, in mist, are roosting
The man expected to stay the night has not yet come
lonely lute awaits at rattan trail
Wang Wei
Farewell
Dismount horse, drink your wine
Ask you: "Where to?"
You say: "At odds with the world
Return to rest by the South Hill."
Please go. Ask no more.
Endless, the white clouds.
Wang Wei
Farewell in the Mountain
Bid each other farewell in the mountain
Closing wooden gate at dusk
Spring grass green again next year
Will the honored friend return?