Swan Song Recital - Your recommendations and input

The most exquisite swan song-type songs ever written, IMO, are Richard Strauss's Vier letzte
Lieder, especially #3, "Beim Schlafengehen" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhdN1x4ke74 -
and #4, "Im Abendrot" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YD_8E4ZVxY - though for your
"seasons" theme, you might want to use #1 of the cycle, "Fruehling (Spring)" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWc5oZ9GCQ).

Also: "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkc2zVTVuc
- from Mahler's Rueckert-Lieder

Also: "Absence" from Berlioz's Les Nuits d'ete -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vm-EcVBOU

Also: "Me, me, and none but me" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFlkqVpqLY - from John
Dowland's First Booke of Songs

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