Yvonne Minton Sings Mahler

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Sympathetic mezzo Yvonne Minton shares Das Lied with heroic tenor Rene Kollo, and adds the Fahrenden Gesellen cycle and four Wunderhorn songs – all vividly played by Georg Solti’s Chicago Symphony. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4827169
Label: Eloquence
Length: 96 minutes

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Work length1:04:47

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René Kollo (tenor), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1972-05-09
Recording Venue: Krannert Centre, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde

Track length8:37

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Der Einsame im Herbst

Track length9:46

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Von der Jugend

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Von der Schönheit

Track length6:59

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Der Trunkene im Frühling

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Der Abschied

Track length31:49

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Excerpt, Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1899 version)

Work length16:05

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Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1970-04-07
Recording Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago

Das irdische Leben

Track length2:39

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Verlor'ne Müh

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Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

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Rheinlegendchen

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Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Work length15:57

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Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Recorded: 1970-04-08
Recording Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago

1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht

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2. Ging heut' morgen übers Feld

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3. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer

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4. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz

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Minton; Solti; Mahler – the complete record of a supreme artistic partnership.

For a memoir published in 2017, Yvonne Minton wrote that 'Mahler's music could have been written with Sir Georg and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in mind.' She was too modest to speak of her own contribution, in which a superbly schooled technique is allied to a deep feeling for the music at hand.

Released as a filler on Side D for Mahler's Fifth Symphony, the very first recording made by the CSO/Solti team that would become a byword for orchestral brilliance over the course of more than four decades, this 1970 account of four songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn perfectly illustrates Minton's claim for Mahler as 'a master storyteller'. She recalled of these early sessions together that 'the rapport between Sir Georg and the orchestra was immediately apparent... and the delicacy of touch was a wonder to behold.'

In the same sessions were taped Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, which were duly issued as a filler for Mahler's Sixth in 1971. That year Minton joined a galaxy of soloists and the CSO in Vienna to take her part in the now-legendary recording of the Eighth, but the true seal was set on the Decca-Mahler-Solti-Minton partnership in May 1972, with Das Lied von der Erde and its sublime embodiment of valediction in 'Der Abschied'.

Though he always had a genius for accompanying singers, this finds Solti at his most sympathetic as a conductor, allowing Minton all the space required to plant each step along the journey of growing solitude with the simplicity which she herself prized in Mahler's music. Minton learnt the cycle from listening to the celebrated account made by Kathleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter in Vienna, and this recording is a worthy successor.

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February 2019

Sympathetic mezzo Yvonne Minton shares Das Lied with heroic tenor Rene Kollo, and adds the Fahrenden Gesellen cycle and four Wunderhorn songs – all vividly played by Georg Solti’s Chicago Symphony.

January 2019

Kollo’s tenor certainly sounds uncomfortable as he struggles against some characteristically full-throttle accompaniment from Solti. But when it comes to Minton, Solti’s go-to mezzo for Mahler, one listener’s ‘impersonal’ is another’s ‘restrained and touching’. This is classy, subtle and undemonstrative singing, but no worse for that…A fine sample of an outstanding and often underrated singer.

Yvonne Minton Sings Mahler

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