Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs & Lieder (.: Lisa della Casa, Karl Böhm / Remastered)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Vier Letze Lieder, . & Lieder. 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) Tidal (Hi-Fi) 🎧 Deezer (Hi-Fi) Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) 🎧 A Spotify (mp3) Youtube Music (mp4) 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) -- Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic, AWA日本… Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation (00:00-02:34) 00:00 Beim Schlafengehen - Vier Letze Lieder (.) (Remastered 2022) 05:07 September - Vier Letze Lieder (.) (Remastered 2022) 09:06 Frühling - Vier Letze Lieder (.) (Remastered 2022) 12:22 Im Abendrot - Vier Letze Lieder (.) (Remastered 2022) 18:25 Lieder: Morgen! Op. 27, No. 4 (Remastered 2022) 22:02 Lieder: Befreit, Op. 39, No. 4 (Remastered 2022) 28:56 Lieder: Einerlei, Op. 69, No. 3 (Remastered 2022) 29:13 Lieder: Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute, Op. 17, No. 1 (Remastered 2022) 31:12 Lieder: Hat gesagt - Bleibt’s nicht dabei, Op. 36, No. 3 (Remastered 2022) 33:20 Lieder: Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69, No. 5 (Remastered 2022) 35:29 Lieder: Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, No. 1 (Remastered 2022) Sopran: Lisa della Casa Piano: Sebastian Peschko Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Karl Böhm Recorded in 1953, at Vienna (Vier Letze Lieder) Recorded in 1962, at Loffenau (Lieder) New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : 🔊 Download CMRR’s recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : ❤ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) Lisa della Casa was the ideal interpreter of Strauss’s songs. Befreit was a special favourite with her and her audiences, her interpretation, so poignant, going to the heart of the matter (« Morgen! Op. 27 »). She brings out the comedy of « Hat gesagt » and « Schlechtes Wetter » without any resort to arch humour, and she can soar with the best of Straussian sopranos in such a song as « Waldseligkeit ». Indeed her gifts might have been made for a composer who so revered the soprano voice. This recording of the Four Last Songs (1953) can be considered as “authentic“ for several reasons. The very order of the songs shows that every effort was made to achieve a “faithful“ interpretation, which would correspond as closely as possible to the composer’s wishes. When Strauss wrote the songs in 1947, he certainly did not conceive of an independent cycle at that time. The first to be completed was “At Dusk“, followed by “Spring“ and “On going to sleep“, and finally “September“. In 1950, they were published in an order that suggests a cyclical conception: first spring, then the representation of autumn, then the premonition of death shortly before sleep, and finally, as a logical conclusion so to speak, the dissolution, the absorption of consciousness into nature. However, at the London premiere on May 22, 1950, Kirsten Flagstad sang the songs in Strauss’s preferred order, and the present recording respects that preference. Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation (00:00-02:34) Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra (.: Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker): Richard Strauss PLAYLIST (reference recordings):