4 Last Songs / 6 Lieder / Ariadne auf Naxos (excerpts)
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RICHARD STRAUSS
4 Last Songs / 6 Lieder / Ariadne auf Naxos (excerpts)
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) / Weimar Staatskapelle / Michael Halasz
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 8 March 2008
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"Undoubtedly thrilling and the complete Brentano with a tremendous reading of Lied der Frauen lends further importance to this disc"
(MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2008)
MusicWeb - Recording of the Year 2008
"Undoubtedly thrilling and the complete Brentano with a tremendous reading of Lied der Frauen lends further importance to this disc"
(MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2008)
"A fine singer more than a match to the demands Strauss makes on her."
(Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2008)
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. Meditations on life, death and the transition into 'the magic circle of the night', the songs 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.
Tracks:
4 letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs), Op. posth., TrV 296
6 Lieder, Op. 68, TrV 235
Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228a (excerpts)
