Strauss: The Complete Songs Volume 8 - Pianist Roger Vignoles astutely notes that Strauss's songs cannot be played, 'without a vivid sense of the orchestral colors and textures that they imply.' To prove that point, Hyperion aptly concludes their series of his complete songs with the piano-accompanied versions of the Vier letzte Lieder. Tenor Nicky Spence and soprano Rebecca Evans perform these wondrous valedictions that represent the summation of a great composer's love affair with the voice, written at the very end of a long creative life.