This concert conducted by Alexander Shelley explores music and poetry through Tod und Verklärung and the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss—featuring soprano Adrianne Pieczonka—as well as the melancholic Valse triste by Jean Sibelius, all centered on themes of death and transformation.
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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Alexander Shelley I Conductor
Adrianne Pieczonka I Soprano
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REPERTOIRE
> Strauss, Vier Letzte Lieder [Four Last Songs], op. 150, TrV 296
> Sibelius, Valse triste (Sad Waltz), op. 44, no. 1
> Strauss, Tod und Verklärung [Death and Transfiguration], op. 24, TrV 158
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