Erwartung - text and translation

[smittims]

I can't resist adding that my first hearing of Erwartung, at a Halle concert in 1968, was the start of a lifelong love of Schoenberg's music. It was conducted by Maurice Handford, a very underrated conductor in my experience, and the soloist was Dorothy Dorow*. She came on in a plian pale blue silk dress and looked extremely frail, but delivered a performance of astonishing intensity which I have never forgotten.


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* not to be confused with Dorothy Dow (sic) who made the first recording.

[oliver sudden]

Chat GPT will do the necessary if you ask for the text (or the libretto) in German and in an English translation ...

And then all you need to do is replace all those words with the words of the actual piece and Robert ist dein Onkel.

[HighlandDougie]

And then all you need to do is replace all those words with the words of the actual piece and Robert ist dein Onkel.

Indeed! Just shows that AI tools are not to be trusted - or that you make Chat GPT cite its sources. I’m Erwartunged out for the moment so suggest that the texts in the CD booklets suggested in various posts (e.g. Sinopoli or Gardner) might be a more reliable source than lazily asking a bot to come up with an answer to a question.

Update: Well dodgy (and erroneous) Chat GPT mish-mash now consigned to the cyber bin.