Interlude: 'September' by Richard Strauss

'September' from the FOUR LAST SONGS of Richard Strauss, sung by soprano Soile Isokoski.

"The garden is mourning,
 the rain sinks coolly into the flowers.
 Summer shudders
 as it meets its end.
 
 Leaf upon leaf drops golden
 down from the lofty acacia.
 Summer smiles, astonished and weak,
 in the dying garden dream.
 
 For a while still by the roses
 it remains standing, yearning for peace.
 Slowly it closes its large
 eyes grown weary."

   - English translation/Emily Ezust