R. Strauss's Four Last Songs featuring Siobhan Stagg
Written in 1948 at the age of 84, Strauss’s Four Last Songs concluded a career of astonishing length, diversity, and productivity. Framed by the highs and lows of the twentieth century, from the rise of modernism through the roar of urbanisation and the ruin of Nazism, Strauss’s Songs are both a wistful meditation on the composer’s own impending death and a nostalgic tribute to worlds gone by.
