MUSIC

Novus NY & Experiential Orchestra: Four Last Songs Reimagined

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023
8:00 PM

St. Paul’s Chapel
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan

$54.98-$81.58
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It’s interesting that, having adopted a sort of plush form of Neoclassicism in his late period, Richard Strauss should have returned for his last masterpiece to what the uncharitable among us (very much including me) would call Overblown Romanticism. But like the style or not, a masterpiece is what the Four Last Songs is. Here we get them played straight, with Sarah Brailey as the soprano. Then, intriguigingly, we get them “reimagined” by vanguard cellist Andrew Yee in what is described as an “immersive” performance. There’ll be some Caroline Shaw in between!

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