Four (4) Last Songs (with Wagner-Extracts) (Rec 1950)

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RICHARD STRAUSS
Four (4) Last Songs (with Wagner-Extracts) (Rec 1950)
Kirsten Flagstad (sop) / Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm FurtwANngler

[ Testament / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 May 2007

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"Flagstad and Furtwängler caught on the wing - this is a real treasure...not least historically as the world premiere performance. Flagstad and (especially) Furtwängler seem to find the very pulse of life here, even as it unravels as death draws near. The Wagner is predictably superb."
(Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine June 2007)

Tracks:

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Four Last Songs (1949) (Frühling [5:10]; September [4:16]; Beim Schlafengehen [2:41]; Im Abendrot [7:39])

Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Tristan und Isolde (1865): Prelude [10:49]; Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Liebestod - Act III) [6:33]
Götterdämmerung (1876): Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Prologue) [11:00]; Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort ... (Act III) [17:55]