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Singer Asmik Grigorian has chosen to record both versions of Richard Strauss's ultimate masterpiece, composed in 1948 the version with orchestra and the much rarer version with piano. For her, this work is associated with the idea of solitude, but not an unhappy solitude, rather a journey towards infinity InchNow all my senses long to sink into slumber. And the soul, unguarded, longs to soar up in freedom, so that, in night's magic circle, it may live deeply and a thousandfold.Inch writes Hermann Hesse in Beim Schlafengehen (Going to Sleep), the third song in the cycle. For this unique coupling, Asmik is joined by two long-time accomplices conductor Mikko Franck, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and pianist Markus Hinterhauser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. The combination of the two versions opens up new sensations after the well-known abundance of Strauss's orchestration an incredible sensitivity is revealed by the piano version. Album Tracks 1. Four Last Songs (Orchestral Version)~I. Frühling 2. Four Last Songs (Orchestral Version)~II. September 3. Four Last Songs (Orchestral Version)~III. Beim Schlafengehen 4. Four Last Songs (Orchestral Version)~IV. Im Abendrot 5. Four Last Songs (Piano Version)~I. Frühling 6. Four Last Songs (Piano Version)~II. September 7. Four Last Songs (Piano Version)~III. Beim Schlafengehen 8. Four Last Songs (Piano Version)~IV. Im Abendrot
