Strauss, Four Last Songs
evening
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach, a frequent visitor to the Easter Festival, is back this year with the soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and the Bamberg Symphony, an institution of excellence and the custodian of incomparable knowhow in the area of the German romantic repertoire.
Maestro Eschenbach, a conductor with the “stature of an austere, taciturn monk” according to Le Monde, will lead us through this same repertoire with ease. The performance opens with Richard Strauss’ magnificent Four Last Songs, the composer’s final works, at the height of his expressive maturity, that provide a window onto the romantic world of the past that was still so alive in his heart. The programme ends with the, at times grandiose, at times popular but always witty Symphony n°2 by the masterful Anton Bruckner.
