One could die in peace and worry free after listening to this most beautiful melody I’ve ever known.

Good God, this is divine. Hats off in particular to Fleming--she's not performing in the slightest. She's giving us this beautiful text through tone, melody, and inflection. There are many truly exceptional singers out there...but Fleming is one of the greats.

It is uplifting in this world of rapidly declining standards to listen to this and be reminded of what beauty humans are capable of creating

I come back to this constantly. It’s just so beautiful and always exactly what I need.

There is beauty 😍 and then there is Renee and Morgen...

I'd love this for my funeral! Absolutely beautiful!

The greats don't always sing every note perfectly; they know it is impossible . It is the intent behind the delivery and their ability to not dwell on whats not working. They, in the moment, give what they have without apologies. Most of the Pro's I've spoken with say that the stage is not the time to think about technique ...I think Fleming is one of the most giving Artist of this Era. If you are thinking about technique while listening, then you aren't living in the moment. Enjoy the moment!!

Magnifique... Violoniste virtuose, et une Renée tout en retenue... Sublimissime...Elle savoure ce qu"elle chante, elle savoure la musique qui la guide et l'emporte...Merci merci Renée d'exister et de chanter avec ton coeur. Vous me faites aimer les lieds; aimer l'allemand...C'est dire, pour une latine comme moi !!

Wunderschön gesungen und ganz hervorragende Aussprache. Zum hinschmelzen...

I used not to like Richard Strauss, but this song has totally won me over. So simple, so heartfelt and a heartrending performance from the great Renee Fleming - though there are other great performances too!

that woman was blessed with the Voice we all wanted to have in our dreams.. when that Voice gets silenced inside her it will be like she lost her one true Love forever

The most Heavenly music and singer I have ever heard.

When you wake up in the morning this is the music you love to hear!

I hope to meet my husband again on this blessed shore.

Magnifica canción en la exquisita voz de Renée Fleming..

Lovely, music that lifts your heart and goes right to your soul can only be a good thing

To my ears simply fantastic...

The violin, just wow😍 such a beautiful piece

Absolutamente una Renée Flemimng maravillosa ..¡¡¡¡¡

Classic performance. I get chills everytime I watch this ♥️

Stunning!!! From the first note to the last! I never tire of the lush orchestration accompanying an equally opulent singer - voice, and delivery. Thanks for posting. It never ceases to amaze me that those who criticize Renée continue to listen to (and dig at) every work posted. Your comments say much more about who you are than it does about Renée, who is just about as lovely as you are nasty.

Как я люблю её пение! Огромное спасибо..!

❤️ Beautiful version!! 👏👏👏 I'm going to add it to my playlist that I have of this song in particular!! 😊

I really enjoyed this version of this master peice! Renee us both beautiful to both eyes and ears! Im a kiri te kanawa fan and i really appreciate the differences in both their sound and interpretations of the same peice! Just beautiful!

Renée Fleming siempre, siempre maravillosa.!!!

Yes the Voice must come to Perth, WA. We want to hear her with the Symphony here. Please come, Renee.

Magnificent... Astonishing.. Thank you ver much

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

Perfect. So lovely to the ears and senses.

""Mañana"" maravillosa interpretación de Renée Fleming.¡¡

This is everything.

WUNDERBAR!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯❤️🙏🏻

Gorgeous singing by the gorgeous Renée!!

Beautiful... much more than the other renditions of this piece she has on youtube.

RENE'E FLEMING CANTA STRAUSS DIVINAMENTE!!!

So beautiful!

Pura belleza.!!

Sublime !!

My god. Beautiful. 🙂

Beautiful beautiful beautiful Exquisite

Simplemente maravillosa.!!

Wow so beautiful

simplemente impresionante.

Prachtige muziek, door een geweldige zangeres. Lucas

Beautiful..

PRECIOSA!!!!💞💞

maravillosa

Bellísima interpretación.!!

Exquisita interpretación.!!!

gluck, wagner, strauss and .... others ... rene = love

가슴 시리도록 아름다운...

Got assigned to sing this song for my college vocal juries. I sing it in April. Honestly, intimidated. So beautiful.

superb

Pues está mujer no tiene rival cantando a Strauss. Única!

Bellissimo! Grazie e auguri

Thanks

Гениально!

One thing is sure: it takes artists of the superior class to sing this.

Qui Renne Fleming, e insuperabile ....

💞💞💞

Imagine hearing this in Vienna on New Years with champagne with Fleming or Jundala G. or for a few hours perhaps Weimar Germany with Schwarzkopf . Had this even been composed that early . I cant believe this came after 1938 bt I think that is so !

🖤🖤

❤❤❤

The mics are for recording not amplification. All the singers you've listed are marvelous. So is she.

🎶❣🙏❣🎶

brava in maniera sconvolgente

A short note for the video loader... it's good to allow about 15 seconds for the audiences response. It helps to end the performance...otherwise very good, thankyou.

Edward Elgar and Richard Strauss are sometimes very much alike. Both are sooo beautiful.

👍👍👍👍👍

A beautiful piece of singing which is rarely heard. A pity that Classic FM is run by people who know so little about vocal art.

Gorgeous. And, you would, wouldn't you... I would.

I know this factoid will tick a lot of people off. This poem, set to exquisite music by Strauss, was written by a gay man about the love that dares not speak its name. Deal with it.

Of course Fleming is wonderful but that uncredited violinist is also world class - this piece almost becomes a duet between her and the violin.

Give me the original piano version any day.

Much as I generally admire this artiste, on this occasion I find her interpretation of this immensely beautiful song far from pleasing. I abandoned her after the first phrase in which she made no attempt to follow the score's marking, which instructs that it should be sung >"molto tranquillo"...< (In passing, I much prefer the melody to be played by a pianist rather than an orchestra; to my ear the sumptuous prelude, likewise the postlude, suits the solo instrument far, far better.) I've listened to maybe thirty or so recordings of this song and for me the version which stands not simply streets but whole motorway lengths ahead of each and every other offering is the pairing of Dame Janet Baker and Gerald Moore. Matchless. Oh how both of them gloriously wallow in and caress the notes in those opening bars, marked "Langsam". They deliver faithful to the composer's clearly stated wishes. Amazingly, in my perception even Fischer‐Dieskau fails to embrace the spirit of the piece, at any juncture. I'd go as far as to opine that here he sounds dull, I was taken aback at this particular discovery. No, JB and GM absolutely nail it in my book. Textbook exemplary, their achievenent indelibly memorable...

Wow, so many experts showing their exquisite taste in saying how much better x or y was. Idiots, it is what it is. Pretty sublime, but of course you heard x and y. Enjoy the now.

When was this? She looks (and sounds) younger.

Endlich mal jemand, der deutsch korrekt ausspricht. Man merkt, dass sie bei der Schwarzkopf Stunden hatte.

1:00

Please , the name of the lead violin ?

Much tot free in interpretation if you ask me.

1:04

I really prefer a mezzo voice like Baker's or DiDonato's for the melancholy. Fleming is superb. This is just a preference

No credits for the violinist and the harpist?? Tut tut!

Lovely, but go to Elisabeth Schumann to hear the magical JOY of the song.

Also, I'd like to see you do it, facil tics... What does that even mean?!

1:02 노래

I honestly thought l was listening Schuman, this beautiful song totally redeems Strauss

this is not horrible, how can you call it horrible?

A cleaner vocal production without a lot of the Flemingisms we've become accustomed to hearing in the past. Sounds like the girl's cleaning up her act!

and you could've done it better, I presume??

I don't think much of the violinist on this piece. He doesn't really seem expressive at all. Renee, however, is amazing. She approaches this song with all the tenderness it deserves.

I feel pity for your soul .....

and glenn gould hated this piece ;(

Horrible violin solo... doesn't connect the vibrato between any two notes. Sounds like he drank 10 cups of coffee proir to the concert. Arm vibrato at it's worst.

Germans uninilligable

Ein Lied ist sehr gut, aber die Aussprache schlecht.

better with piano though. much more intimate

There is no peace in that violin vibrato

these opera singers are so underpaid renee fleming is excellent why is taylor swift and madonna so overpaid and there talent is not even up to par with real singers who sing this art.???