13 Mar Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s New Album: “Strauss: Four Last Songs”
Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s New Album: “Strauss: Four Last Songs”
March 13, 2023
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Winner of the First, Birgit Nilsson and Zarzuela Prizes in Operalia 2014, released her second solo album: “Strauss: Four Last Songs”, accompanied by the Gewandhausorchester under the baton of Andris Nelsons
The album presents works of Richard Strauss’s later years, pairing Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) with the closing scene of his final opera, Capriccio, where she is joined by German bass Sebastian Pilgrim
Ms. Willis-Sørensen views the Four Last Songs as “a parable for life. Musically speaking, you have the expectation of one particular harmonic resolution, and then it goes in a different direction and it’s rendered more beautiful because it surprises you. Life is absolutely like that!”
Listen to the album here
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Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s New Album: “Strauss: Four Last Songs”
March 13, 2023
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Winner of the First, Birgit Nilsson and Zarzuela Prizes in Operalia 2014, released her second solo album: “Strauss: Four Last Songs”, accompanied by the Gewandhausorchester under the baton of Andris Nelsons
The album presents works of Richard Strauss’s later years, pairing Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) with the closing scene of his final opera, Capriccio, where she is joined by German bass Sebastian Pilgrim
Ms. Willis-Sørensen views the Four Last Songs as “a parable for life. Musically speaking, you have the expectation of one particular harmonic resolution, and then it goes in a different direction and it’s rendered more beautiful because it surprises you. Life is absolutely like that!”
Listen to the album here