Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)

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The musical future is thrillingly present in this searing live performance...Gerhaher and Boulez together explore and recreate that fragile warmth of nostalgia. The lithe, toned muscle of both... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2010
Catalogue No: 4779060
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Series: Pierre Boulez Mahler cycle
Length: 73 minutes

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1899 version)

Work length49:06

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Magdalena Kozená (mezzo-soprano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 2010-02-13
Recording Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

Track length5:28

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Verlor'ne Müh

Track length3:00

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Trost im Unglück

Track length2:52

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Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?

Track length2:20

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Das irdische Leben

Track length2:45

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Revelge

Track length6:37

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Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

Track length3:34

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Rheinlegendchen

Track length3:28

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Lied des Verfolgten im Turm

Track length4:28

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Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Track length7:00

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Lob des hohen Verstandes

Track length2:38

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Der Tamboursg'sell

Track length4:56

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Excerpt, Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major

Work length24:03

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Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 2010-02-13
Recording Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland

Adagio

Track length24:03

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Pierre Boulez adds the two last missing bricks to complete his Mahler discography on Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded live in concert with the Cleveland Orchestra the program brings together the early orchestral song cycle from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, featuring mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and baritone Christian Gerhaher with the late Adagio of Mahler’s fragmentary Symphony No. 10

The concert took place only a few months before Gustav Mahler’s 150 Birthday. The concert is also part of the celebrations of Pierre Boulez’ 85 birthday this year.

“The undoubted star of the "Wunderhorn" songs was Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená, whose plush voice and dramatic flair handily captured the essences of scenes steeped in the miseries of war, poverty, and ephemeral love.” (Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

“The reading under Boulez was one of extremes, marked by crushing softness, biting dissonance, and throat-grabbing peaks. Yet it was also cool and insightful, elucidating how the score's modest themes unfold and accumulate weight to magnificent effect over time.” (Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

“This performance had the hallmarks of the great Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra collaboration: precision of sound and tuning, transparency of texture with details being elucidated, flexibility of rhythm appropriate to this last of the great Viennese symphonists, but without being overwrought.” (ClevelandClassical.com, Cleveland)

Reviews

December 2010

The musical future is thrillingly present in this searing live performance...Gerhaher and Boulez together explore and recreate that fragile warmth of nostalgia. The lithe, toned muscle of both orchestra and voice, everywhere meticulously balanced, maximises each expressive nuance.

23rd September 2010

...the Cleveland Orchestra's playing (in a concert at its home at Severance Hall last February) is fabulously precise and refined, while Magdalena Kožená (despite the occasional uncertain intonation) and Christian Gerhaher lavish immense care on colouring and inflecting every phrase.

5th October 2010

Boulez the arch-modernist unsurprisingly emphasises the grinding dissonances in Mahler’s only completed movement from his Tenth Symphony. But in the song cycle “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” he belies his reputation for clinical coolness with a lovely lyricism

17th September 2010

...the Cleveland Orchestra’s elegant subtlety almost passes belief in the adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony...But the voices inevitably take pride of place, with the baritone Christian Gerhaher superbly characterised, clear as a bell, and the mezzo Magdalena Kozená distinctive if slightly muffled. It’s a wonderful disc, regardless.

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)

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