So Lasst Mich Scheinen glows like a poetic twilight. The singer, wrapped in a radiant white gown, is ready to step off the "beautiful earth" and into a "dark house" – Schubert’s tender image for the grave. Instead of fear, there is serenity: she asks to keep shining until the very last moment, knowing that a brief rest will open her eyes to a fresh, celestial vision. In that otherworldly realm, there are no labels of man or woman, no tight belts or ornate crowns. Only a purified spirit remains, free from earthly wrinkles and worries.
Beneath the gentle melody lies a profound wish: make me forever young again. Our narrator admits she once lived carefree, yet sorrow aged her too quickly. Death becomes a mysterious spa of the soul, a place to shed pain and emerge renewed. Schubert’s music and Anna Lucia Richter’s luminous delivery invite you to hear mortality not as an ending, but as a second sunrise – a hopeful transformation wrapped in exquisite Romantic lyricism.