All this week on Voices Carry at 2pm, we are taking a deep dive into Richard Strauss’ final love letter, his Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs). Richard Strauss was – like much of the world – ...
Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...