September 2008

Renée Fleming
A new disc of Strauss’s Four Last Songs, a gala appearance at the Met… and a new perfume? We meet a soprano at the height of her powers.

Strauss & Hollywood
How the composer’s style influenced the silver screen

A walk around Vienna
A waltz around Europe’s capital of 19th-century music

Composer of the Month
David Nice on the composer’s life and works

Classical Connections
What to head for after hearing Till Eulenspiegel

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04/09/2008
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196

On the Cover Disc

Mahler: Rückert Lieder; Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

BBC Music Magazine is thrilled to bring you a disc one of the most stunning young voices around today. Here she performs Mahler’s introspective song cycle Rückert-Lieder and Brahms’s poignant Alto Rhapsody. Accompanying her are the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jac van Steen and Yasuo Shinozaki

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