Sheldonian TheatreOxford, South-East, OX1 3AZ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Thursday 27 November 2025 | 19:30 |
Programme
Performers
Lucy Crowe | Soprano |
Gordon Hunt | Oboe |
Marios Papadopoulos | Conductor |
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra |
In 1948, Richard Strauss sensed the end was nigh. Germany lay in ruins, its major opera houses destroyed by war. As his attempts to ignite a cultural rebirth in his homeland proved futile, Strauss turned to music. His final goodbye was a series of four iconic orchestral songs that, in the words of David Bowie, ‘ache with love for a life quietly fading.’ Lucy Crowe joins the Orchestra for a performance of Strauss’s profoundly moving musical epitaph alongside the Orchestra’s Solo Oboe Gordon Hunt performing Strauss’s tender Oboe Concerto written just a few years earlier.

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