Strauss & Langgaard

Strauss was 84 and in the autumn of his life when he composed Vier Letzte Lieder – a song cycle for soprano and orchestra. The songs are about saying goodbye to life, but there is no dirge about Strauss's work – rather a clarity. The music is sparklingly beautiful, and together with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra this evening, the Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg, who since her employment at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin from 2013-15, has been in d...