Richard Strauss

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Gran Teatre del Liceu: AuditoriumLa Rambla, 51-59, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08002, Spain

Dates/times in Madrid time zone

Programme

Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op.28
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op.24
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)

Performers

Jacquelyn Wagner	Soprano
Josep Pons	Conductor
Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

Josep Pons captivates us with the mastery of Richard Strauss

At the beginning of his career, Richard Strauss devoted himself to the tone poem, a single-movement musical genre inspired by philosophical and literary ideals. An absolute orchestral master, Strauss drew inspiration from a character in German picaresque literature for Till Eulenspiegel, while Death and transfiguration is the musical translation of a poem by Alexander Ritter on the death of an artist. The concert includes Strauss’s final work, his Four Last Songs, written in 1948 using texts by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff. The songs will be sung by the soprano Jacquelyn Wagner.

Tickets on sale from June 2017.

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Two Strauss swansongs and a prankster’s end in Barcelona

John Marten Barnard, 29th April

The Gran Teatre del Liceu’s orchestra performs challenging works by Strauss under resident conductor Josep Pons.

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