Four Last Songs - Laws Of Solitude [LP]
Singer Asmik Grigorian has chosen to record both versions of Richard Strauss's ultimate masterpiece, composed in 1948: the version with orchestra and the much rarer version with piano. For her, this work is associated with the idea of solitude, but not an unhappy solitude, rather a journey towards infinity: "Now all my senses long to sink into slumber. And the soul, unguarded, longs to soar up in freedom, so that, in night's magic circle, it may live deeply and a thousandfold." writes Hermann Hesse in Beim Schlafengehen (Going to Sleep), the third song in the cycle. For this unique coupling, Asmik is joined by two long-time accomplices: conductor Mikko Franck, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and pianist Markus Hinterhauser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. The combination of the two versions opens up new sensations: after the well-known abundance of Strauss's orchestration an incredible sensitivity is revealed by the piano version.
Tracklist:
- Four Last Songs (orchestral version)~
- Frühling
- Four Last Songs (orchestral version)~
- September
- Four Last Songs (orchestral version)~
- Beim schlafengehen
- Four Last Songs (orchestral version)~
- Im Abendrot
- Four Last Songs (piano version)~
- Frühling
- Four Last Songs (piano version)~
- September
- Four Last Songs (piano version)~
- Beim schlafengehen
- Four Last Songs (piano version)~
- Im Abendrot
UPC: 3701624510520
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 2.23.24
Format: Vinyl

