Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

What is perhaps most immediately striking is the detail and brilliance of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing…[Skelton] makes a fine, handsome sound and offers something special in... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

Release Date: 31st Aug 2018
Catalogue No: 900172
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 64 minutes

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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

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Stuart Skelton (tenor), Magdalena Kozená (mezzo-soprano)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 25-27 January 2018
Recording Venue: München, Herkulessaal, Germany

I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (Live)

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II. Der Einsame im Herbst (Live)

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III. Von der Jugend (Live)

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IV. Von der Schönheit (Live)

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V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (Live)

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VI. Der Abschied (Live)

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Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, this performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) was recorded at concerts in Munich's Herkulessaal on January 25 and 26, 2018, and features Magdalena Kožená and Stuart Skelton. The work is subtitled 'A symphony for tenor, alto (or baritone) voice and orchestra'. It examines the border between two different genres: the Lied, in its extended form as a song cycle, and the symphony. The entire work is spanned by a taut arc, culminating – in accordance with the principle of intensification – in a huge final movement lasting as long as all the others together, and entitled Der Abschied (The Farewell). Here, Mahler is continuing the genre of the 'Finale Symphony', and the brightening of C minor to C major is even reminiscent of his usual apotheoses. In this symphony, as in his others, Mahler wanted to 'create a world using all existing technical means'.

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November 2018

What is perhaps most immediately striking is the detail and brilliance of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing…[Skelton] makes a fine, handsome sound and offers something special in his moving reactions to the poetry. Kožená in her songs offers singing of supreme beauty. In fact, she sings almost too beautifully at times…Not a conventional Lied, perhaps, but a fascinating and beguiling one: highly recommended.

August 2018

The Australian heldentenor is on ringing, impassioned form in the opening drinking-song, riding the hefty orchestration with Siegfried-like blade, but it’s Kožená’s ethereal, luminous Abschied which makes this a must-have for me: her slender, silvery mezzo may lack the timbral depth of a Ferrier or a Ludwig, but yields nothing in the way of intensity.

14th October 2018

Rattle accompanies the light but lustrous mezzo of his wife, Kozena, with the utmost delicacy...Skelton’s heroic voice is an ideal instrument for the more flamboyant tenor songs, singing with bravado, and the Munich players have nothing to fear from comparison with Rattle’s (former) Berliners.

7th September 2018

The playing stirred by Simon Rattle from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra has a radiant beauty and piercing clarity quite beyond the norm. Every instrumental line stands out, from a somersaulting flute to the ominous groans of the bass clarinet: precious gifts in a work featuring so many delicate textures.

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