Richard Strauss

Vinyl is mint, jacket is in like-new condition and is still covered in original shrink-wrap. Grand Prix du Disque, a truly phenomenal recording. The great Michael Schwalbe is featured on violin.

Sections
1. Einleitung (Introduction), or sunrise
2. Von den Hinterweltlern (Of the Backworldsmen)
3. Von der großen Sehnsucht (Of the Great Longing)
4. Von den Freuden und Leidenschaften (Of the Joys and Passions)
5. Das Grablied (The Grave-Song)
6. Von der Wissenschaft (Of Science)
7. Der Genesende (The Convalescent)
8. Das Tanzlied (The Dance Song)
9. Nachtwandlerlied (Song of the Night Wanderer)

Vinyl is near-mint, flawless; album still in shrinkwrap. Liner notes have some handwritten text on them, otherwise in good condition. (The lyrics for the magnificent Vier letzte Lieder can be found here.) These works were, until recently, seen as constituting the composer's own requiem - a self-conscious farewell to existence, given loving expression by an idealised soprano voice and intended for performance after his death. But it is now accepted that Strauss, envisaging a performance in his lifetime, wrote the songs specifically for the great Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

Contents
Four Last Songs
Frühling (Hermann Hesse)
September (Hermann Hesse)
Beim Schlafengehen (Hermann Hesse)
Im Abendrot (Joseph von Eichendorff)

Five other songs with Orchestra
Muttertändelei, Op.43 No.2
Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, no. 1
Zueignung, Op. 10, no. 1
Freundliche Vision, Op. 48, no. 1
Die Heilige Drei Könige, Op. 56, no. 6

Vinyl is mint; jacket is in like-new condition, still in shrink-wrap.

Wikipedia has this to say about this work:

At Strauss's request, this work was described in a poem by the composer's friend Alexander Ritter as an interpretation of Death and Transfiguration, after it was composed. As the man lays dying, thoughts of his life pass through his head: his childhood innocence, the struggles of his manhood, the attainment of his worldly goals; and at the end, he receives the longed-for transfiguration "from the infinite reaches of heaven".

There are four parts (with Ritter's poetic thoughts condensed):

1. Largo (The sick man, near death)
2. Allegro molto agitato (The battle between life and death offers no respite to the man)
3. Meno mosso (The dying man's life passes before him)
4. Moderato (The sought-after transfiguration)