Synopsis

Katie Derham hosts a concert from the Royal Albert Hall commemorating the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’s birth. Acclaimed Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen performs the composer’s poignant *Four Last Songs* in a programme also featuring two of Strauss's less familiar compositions: the grand *Festspielprelude* and the *Deutsche Motette* for choir and four solo voices. A sense of late-Romantic longing persists with a performance of Elgar’s Second Symphony, conducted by Vasily Petrenko and fe