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Eri Nakamura sings Richard Strauss

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Japan's Eri Nakamura performs Cäcilie from Richard Strauss' Songs Op 27 No 2, in the final of the 2009 Â鶹Éç Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

"If you knew what it is like to dream of burning kisses ... if you knew what it is like to live enveloped in the breath of God ... you would live with me!" says the poet to his beloved in this passionate song of courtship and yearning. Strauss composed the song the day before his wedding to the singer Pauline von Ahna. The text is by Heinrich Hart and is dedicated to his wife, Cäcilie.


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