R. Strauss: Complete Songs Vol. 8 / Vignoles

Roger Vignoles (piano)

Strauss, R: Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2 Nicky Spence (tenor) Wenn ..., Op. 31 No. 2 Nicky Spence (tenor) Bruder Liederlich, Op. 41 No. 4 Nicky Spence (tenor) An Sie, Op. 43 No. 1 Nicky Spence (tenor) Die Ulme zu Hirsau, Op. 43 No. 3 Nicky Spence (tenor) Fünf Gedichte, Op. 46 Nicky Spence (tenor) Junggesellenschwur, Op. 49 No. 6 Nicky Spence (tenor) Wer wird von der Welt verlangen, Op. 67 No. 4 Nicky Spence (tenor) Hab'ich euch denn je geraten, Op. 67 No. 5 Nicky Spence (tenor) Wanderers Gemutsruhe, Op. 67 No. 6 Nicky Spence (tenor) Der Pokal, Op. 69, No. 2 Nicky Spence (tenor) Vier letzte Lieder arr. Max Wolff (1885-1954) Rebecca Evans (soprano) Sie wissen's nicht, Op. 49 No. 5 Nicky Spence (tenor)

Roger Vignoles astutely notes that Strauss’s songs cannot be played ‘without a vivid sense of the orchestral colours and textures that they imply’, so how better to conclude our series of the complete songs than with the piano-accompanied versions of the Vier letzte Lieder? These wondrous valedictions are the summation of a great composer’s love affair with the voice, written at the very end of a long creative life.

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