Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949 ... Although Strauss did not come up with the title ...

Why is it that every generation of sopranos seems to perform Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” more slowly than the last? After an exciting “Fruehling” and “September,” Renee Fleming glides ...

Soprano Christine Brewer with Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony performing Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs in February 2013. Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthday of ...

Composed shortly before his own passing, Richard Strauss's "Four Last Songs" for soprano and orchestra are a serene reflection on themes of life and the peaceful acceptance of death. On the 75th ...

The program featured Richard Strauss’ “Vier Letztes Lieder” (“Four Last Songs”) and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major, with English soprano Claire Booth as the soloist.

The soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has just released an album of Richard Strauss, two late works – the Four Last Songs and the Closing scene from the opera Capriccio. On this new Sony Classical ...

written by Richard Strauss in 1894, solo violin rises from ... accompaniment contrasted with the richly orchestrated “Four Last Songs.” On these pieces, which Strauss wrote toward the end ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...

Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Eivind Aadland, leads 95 musicians from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Australian National Academy of Music in an epic performance of works by Richard ...