Mahler: & Xiaogang Ye:The Song of the Earth

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Long Yu secures some incisive and sensitive playing from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a spacious recorded acoustic. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 9th Jul 2021
Catalogue No: 4837452
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 98 minutes

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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Work length58:31

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Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Brian Jagde (tenor)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu
Recorded: 2020-12-12
Recording Venue: Shanghai Symphony Hall

I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde

Track length7:54

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II. Der Einsame im Herbst

Track length9:10

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III. Von der Jugend

Track length2:55

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IV. Von der Schönheit

Track length7:04

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V. Der Trunkene im Frühling

Track length4:31

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VIa. Der Abschied "Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge"

Track length12:46

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VIb. Der Abschied. Mäßig

Track length5:26

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VIc. Der Abschied "Er stieg vom Pferd"

Track length8:45

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Ye: 'The Song of the Earth' for Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra, Op. 47

Work length39:45

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Shenyang (baritone), Liping Zhang (soprano)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu
Recorded: 2020-12-12
Recording Venue: Shanghai Symphony Hall

I. Tale of Sorrowful Song

Track length7:45

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II. Banquet at Tao Family's Pavilion

Track length5:11

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III. Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Track length6:07

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IV. Song of Pick Lotus

Track length6:21

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V. Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day

Track length5:58

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VI. Staying at Teacher's Mountain Retreat, Awaiting a Friend in Vain, Farewell

Track length8:23

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Interview, Long Yu on The Song of the Earth

17th August 2021

The conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra talks about his new recording, pairing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with a newly-commissioned setting by Xiaogang Ye of the original Chinese poems on which it was based.

“Our countries have moved further apart. Most people are so immersed in their own life experience that they don’t even try to understand the culture of other societies … but by comparing these two works people can see the double picture – how Europeans feel about love, pleasure, and death, and how the Chinese feel about the same things.” Long Yu. Centuries-old Chinese poetry is brought vividly to life in a new recording from Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Their second album for Deutsche Grammophon, The Song of the Earth, is set for international release on 13 August 2021. The world premiere recording of the contemporary The Song of the Earth by Ye Xiaogang is presented alongside Gustav Mahler’s classic symphony. Ye’s ambitious new work expresses the grandeur and beauty of the original Tang Dynasty poems that Mahler set in German translation, fusing a contemporary style with centuries’ worth of traditions from both east and west. Long Yu, who commissioned Ye’s work, conducts the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in this fascinating meeting of histories and cultures.

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October 2021

Long Yu secures some incisive and sensitive playing from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a spacious recorded acoustic.

29th July 2021

Ye studied in the west with Alexander Goehr and Louis Andriessen, but his musical language is an amalgam of earlier 20th-century styles, beginning with Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, with just occasional Chinese elements. It’s all very colourful, if sometimes rather overwrought.

Mahler: & Xiaogang Ye:The Song of the Earth

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