Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’

A powerful finale to close this year’s festival, featuring Rowan Pierce, one of today’s most captivating sopranos, in Strauss’s deeply moving Four Last Songs – the composer’s farewell to the world, written in the shadow of mortality and considered a pinnacle of 20th-century orchestral song.

Showcasing Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra, this evocative programme includes the melancholic and introspective Symphony No. 3 by Brahms, Ravel’s exquisite Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Wagner’s bold Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – a sweeping journey through late Romanticism.