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English Symphony Orchestra
Richard Strauss Four Last Songs (chamber version by James Ledger) 26’
Mahler Symphony No.9 (chamber version by Klaus Simon) 80’
Kenneth Woods, conductor
April Fredrick, soprano
Composed in the difficult years just after WW2, Strauss’s final masterpiece ‘Four Last Songs’ stand as one of music’s most inspiring expressions of thanks – for long life, for long love and for a world abundant in music and nature.
The Ninth Symphony of Strauss’s friend & contemporary, Gustav Mahler – his last completed work – sees the composer working through deep despair and resignation (shaken to the core by the sudden death of his daughter in 1907) towards a resolution which abounds in gratitude and love.
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