Longing

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Lucy Crowe makes her Linn debut with a programme of lieder by Berg, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg. This recital brilliantly demonstrates why she is one of the most important lyric sopranos of her generation. Lucy is accompanied by pianist Anna Tilbrook, with whom she has developed a strong rapport through more than twenty years of professional collaboration, marked by numerous concerts at Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. The programme spans the two ends of Strauss’s fruitful career in the field of song, with on the one hand five songs from the collection Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Blätter and on the other the sublime posthumously published swan song Vier letzte Lieder. Sieben frühe Lieder by Berg is a major composition that evokes Strauss’s late Romanticism; it is paired with Vier Lieder by Berg’s mentor, Schoenberg, which is characterised by post-Wagnerian chromaticism. After their concert at Wigmore Hall in June 2020, The Guardian declared: “Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder (...) suit Crowe perfectly and her refined voice, keen sense of line and discreet but clear approach to the word.”