From the Olympic Stadium at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Margaret Price – soprano
Georges Prêtre – conductor
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (Bamberger Symphoniker)
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs (Vier letzten Lieder, AV 150 – TrV 296)
0:37 Frühling (Spring)
4:05 September
8:30 Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep)
13:57 Im Abendrot (At Sunset)
This gala concert was recorded live from the Olympic Stadium at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Georges Prêtre conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in performances of Strauss’s last full-scale orchestral work, Eine Alpensinfonie and his tone-poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. Soprano Margaret Price is the soloist for Vier Letzte Lieder.
Watch the complete concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi8Q-GoQrSs&list=PLDOx7nx0z2hhe6WFWhzbsogEnMMk81cuU
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