| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-May-2013 Auckland Town Hall | Auckland Philharmonia's Last Songs a mixed bag |
 The Auckland Philharmonia and conductor Jun Märkl presented “Last Songs”, a programme of late works by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Zemlinsky. We opened with Zemlinsky’s Sinfonietta, a work much admired by Schoenberg and Berg. There is a spiky quality to the music that is reminiscent of Hindemith and Stravinsky, though notably less acerbic than either. One can perceive the influences of both Neoclassicism and jazz and the romantic lushness that is a characteristic of Zemlinsky’s earlier work emerges only briefly here.Read full review... | |
| 29-Jan-2013 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | Angela Meade debuts at Koerner Hall with the Ontario Philharmonic in Strauss' Four Last Songs |
 Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs hold an important place in the musical canon for voice and orchestra. The 81-year-old composer wrote them in 1948 from his post-war home in Switzerland, setting poetry by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff. Devotees of Strauss’ music often consider these songs the summit of the composer’s entire output, revealing a tremendously colourful inner world reminiscent of the final chapter in the life of their creator.Read full review... | |
| 2-Jun-2012 Beethovenhalle | La Scala on the Rhine: Harding and the Filarmonica della Scala excel |
 At first sight the choice of programme and musicians for this pre-Beethoven Festival concert was a bit odd. Music by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Dvořák played by La Scala's Filarmonica, under the direction of Oxford-born Daniel Harding.
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| 24-Nov-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Dohnányi and the Philharmonia at the Festival Hall |
 Following their acclaimed 'Bartók: Infernal Dance' series, the Philharmonia moved on Thursday to another of the twentieth century’s great composers: Richard Strauss. Strauss’s youthful tone poems, Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche were contrasted with his gloriously autumnal Four Last Songs, with Mozart’s 25th Symphony serving as a rather unexpected companion.
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