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Larry is a pianist and American ex-pat living on the Spanish island of Majorca, where he was drawn by the music of great local composer, Valerin Lucinski. Lucinski now dead, and Larry's great dream is to hold a concert on the island in honour of his hero. He must go about organising it while secretly colluding with Lucinski's eccentric young muse, and dealing with the arrival of a long-lost ...
Strauss's Four Last Songs are simply one of the most touchingly beautiful ways for a composer to end his career, says Jane Jones. At the end of a long and successful career, when a composer still has the power to move his audience with a swansong of such sublime beauty that it takes your breath away - well, you know that work is a masterpiece.
Jun 26, 2007 · Released , 'Four Last Songs' stars Stanley Tucci, Rhys Ifans, Hugh Bonneville, Jena Malone The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 50 min, and received a user score of 58 (out of 100) on TMDb, which ...
The songs are "Frühling" (Spring), "September", " Beim Schlafengehen [ de] " (When Falling Asleep) and "Im Abendrot" (At Sunset). The title Four Last Songs was provided posthumously by Strauss's friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950 after Strauss's death. Strauss died in September 1949.
Dec 5, 2007 · Four Last Songs: Directed by Francesca Joseph. With Stanley Tucci, Rhys Ifans, Hugh Bonneville, Jena Malone. A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Francesca Joseph
- 2007-12-05
Running time. 110 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Four Last Songs is a 2007 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Francesca Joseph and starring Stanley Tucci, Rhys Ifans, and Hugh Bonneville . The film's title is taken from Four Last Songs, 1948 composition of Richard Strauss, surrounding acceptance of death.
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Professor Emeritus of Music at Duke University, Bryan Gilliam is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century German music. He is the author of The life of Richard Strauss in the Cambridge Musical Lives series as well as editor of several volumes of Strauss scholarship. His most recent book is Rounding Wagner’s Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...
