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The Four Last Songs (German: Vier letzte Lieder), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are – with the exception of the song "Malven" (Mallows), composed later the same year – the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84.
Feb 27, 2024 · Manfred Honeck leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, highlights from Puccini’s Turandot and moving music by Suppé and MacMillan. Every listener should be lucky enough to hear Renée Fleming's warm voice and vocal mastery live.
Universally considered among the composer’s most beautiful, profound, and human works, Strauss's Four Last Songs were among his last compositions and served as a final love letter to his wife of nearly 60 years, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.
May 4, 2019 · Learn about Richard Strauss, the German Romantic composer, and his final masterpiece, the Four Last Songs.
Aug 3, 2023 · The world premiere of David Dawson’s ballet Four Last Songs, set to the stunning song cycle of the same name by Richard Strauss, features in our upcoming triple bill Our Voices. Read more about the fascinating history behind the music and what makes it so compelling to this day. Our Voices. Preview E. English National Ballet. Save on Spotify. 1.
The four songs were composed with lyrics by Hermann Hesse, and Joseph von Eichendorff (Im Anbendrot), and the music lays over the poets’ words an extremely delicate twilight shadow.
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Oct 4, 2017 · At Sunset is by Josef Eichendorff. (You can read the full translation here). One critic described the Four Last Songs as an orchestral tone poem with soprano obligato. We hear the vast depth and expanse of the strings and the distant, plaintive heroism of the horn call. The soprano voice held special, life-long significance for Strauss.
