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Wagner, Beethoven and Strauss
Nash Ensemble; Lucy Crowe soprano; Jamie Phillips conductor
Date
Sat 16 Feb 2019, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Nash Ensemble
    • Lucy Crowesoprano
    • Jamie Phillipsconductor

    Programme

    Interval

    • Richard Strauss
      1864-1949
        • Capriccio Op. 85
          :
        • String Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85
        • 4 Last Songs
          :
        • 4 Last Songs for voice and ensemble (arr. James Ledger) (arranged by James Ledger)

    Overview

    This programme visits the roots ofGerman musical Romanticism withBeethoven’s highly original StringQuintet, scales its heights withWagner’s intimate birthday gift to hiswife Cosima, and ends in its glowingtwilight with Richard Strauss’s4 Last Songs, here sung by radiantsoprano Lucy Crowe.

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