Four Last Songs - Orchestral Version And Piano Version

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Asmik Grigorian has chosen to record the version with orchestra and the much rarer one with piano. For her, this work is associated with the idea of solitude, but not an unhappy solitude, rather a journey towards infinity: "Now all my senses long to sink into slumber. And the soul, unguarded, longs to soar up in freedom, so that, in night's magic circle, it may live deeply and a thousandfold." writes Hesse in the third song in the cycle.