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R Strauss - Four Last Songs, etc | Naxos 8570283

R Strauss - Four Last Songs, etc

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570283

Barcode: 0747313028375

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th January 2008

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Contents

Artists

Ricarda Merbeth (soprano)
Weimar Staatskapelle

Conductor

Michael Halasz

Works

Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos, op.60: highlights
Lieder (6), op.68
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150

Artists

Ricarda Merbeth (soprano)
Weimar Staatskapelle

Conductor

Michael Halasz

About

A year before his death in 1948, Richard Strauss composed his masterpiece, Four Last Songs, expressing a calm acceptance of the inevitability of his own death. The songs meditate on life, death, and the transition into ‘the magic circle of the night’ and rank among the most haunting music ever written.
In contrast, the six Brentano-Lieder are playful, incandescent and virtuosic settings of Clemens Brentano’s deeply romantic poems.
Acclaimed Strauss star Ricarda Merbeth shines in these sublime masterpieces, as tender as they are haunting.

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