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Recorded last December in the Philharmonie, Berlin, this concert was dedicated to the memory of the great conductor Mariss Jansons, who was greatly loved by the Berlin Philharmonic.

The programme centres around Strauss鈥檚 Drei Hymnen, three hymns to freedom and to the power of love which can overcome all obstacles. They are framed by operatic extracts on the same themes, and by the delightful Sonatina No 1 for winds, which Strauss wrote in 1943, at a time when freedom seemed a distant illusion.

Wagner: Prelude to Act I of 'Lohengrin'
Strauss: Sonatina for 16 Winds No. 1 in F, AV 135 ('From the Workshop of an Invalid')

8.15: Interval: C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in D major Wq.183 no.1
Berlin Academy for Early Music
Hans-Christoph Rademann, director

8.35: Strauss: Drei Hymnen, op. 71,
Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier', op. 59

Anja Kampe, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor

Followed at 9.20 by Schubert: Sonata in C minor D.958
Louis Schwizgebel, piano

Photo Credit: Stephan Rabold