Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs (complete), Gundula Janowitz, Karajan

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder):
1.Frühling 0:00
2.September 4:08
3.Beim Schlafengehen 9:04
4.Im Abendrot 15:23

Gundula Janowitz, soprano
Berliner Philarmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Recording date: 1974; cd issued in 1990 and 1996 by Deutsche Grammophon
Educational use only. No copyright infringement intended.

Picture: Portrait of Richard Strauss (detail), by Max Liebermann. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.

This wonderful version of the Four Last Songs had been kindly uploaded already by another user, but the songs had been separate in four different uploads. The reason for the present upload is to have the whole set of the four songs in only one video, as they usually are performed.