Strauss: Four Last Songs (Schwarzkopf)

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Strauss: Four Last Songs
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Strauss: Four Last Songs

Basics

Composer(s): 
Richard Strauss
Artist(s): 
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Conductor(s): 
George Szell
Orchestra / Band: 
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Performance: 
Lieder

Specifics

Label: 
Angel
Album serial number: 
36347
Library of Congress reference page: 
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 
R66-2729
Number of LPs: 
1
Vinyl: 
Near mint
Jacket and Sleeve: 
Good

Notes

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

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