Soprano Diana Damrau describes singing Richard Strauss as "like coming home". The Bavarian Damrau literally comes home on this album, a collaboration with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, for the Four Last Songs. Damrau also sings a selection of Strauss Lieder with Helmut Deutsch at the piano. Conducting the orchestra is Mariss Jansons, in his final recording.
Featuring
Anton Barakhovsky
Diana Damrau
Mariss Jansons
Helmut Deutsch
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Richard Strauss
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Composer Biography
Richard Strauss's final song, Malven, was sent to soprano Maria Jeritza with the dedication 'This final rose for my beloved Maria'.
Composer Biography
The love songs in Richard Strauss's Opus 10 were likely inspired by Dora Wihan, the wife of his father's colleague, with whom Strauss may have been emotionally involved.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Richard Strauss once described his compositional process as finding a poem that matched his mood, then instinctively fitting the appropriate music to it.
Composition History
Richard Strauss's Opus 27 songs, including Ruhe, meine Seele! and Morgen!, were a wedding present for his wife, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.
Composition History
Richard Strauss's Three Ophelia Songs were composed under duress after his publisher, Bote & Bock, threatened legal action for his refusal to write new songs.
Compositional Technique
Richard Strauss's setting of Die Nacht depicts the onset of darkness through the piano accompaniment, adding notes bar by bar as if night were falling.
Composition History
Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs were not conceived as a cycle by the composer, but were created posthumously by his publisher, Ernst Roth.
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