Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, songs with orchestra, Der Rosenkavalier Suite Renee Fleming, soprano; Houston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor (RCA Victor Red Seal) Strauss: Fo… ...

Although Strauss did not come up with the title “Four Last Songs” (that was left to his friend and editor Ernst Roth, who ...

Richard Strauss wrote his first song when he was 6 years old, and he continued to write songs all of his life. His Four Last Songs , written just a year before his death at age 85, is an ...

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs. On his deathbed, ... Death and Transfiguration (Tod und Verklärung). Yet, indirectly, he was also doffing the cap to his Four Last Songs, where, in one, ‘Im Abendrot’ ...

In context, “she” was the young American soprano Heidi Melton, and the recording was Schwarzkopf’s radiant 1965 performance, forever immortalized, of Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs ...

‘Four Last Songs’ (1948) by Richard Strauss suggests that dying is not the end, but rather a transition. ... and in the past by paragons like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, ...

Richard Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’: Embracing the End. The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, ...