Katarina Karnéus, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Rückert-Lieder (2011) [Hi-Res]

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01. Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
02. Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl
03. Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): No. 3. Wenn dein Mutterlein
04. Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
05. Kindertotenlieder (version for voice and orchestra): No. 5. In diesem Wetter
06. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (version for voice and piano): No. 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
07. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (version for voice and piano): No. 2. Ging heut' morgen ubers Feld
08. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (version for voice and piano): No. 3. Ich hab' ein gluhend Messer
09. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (version for voice and piano): No. 4. Die zwei blauen Augen
10. Ruckert-Lieder (version for voice and piano): No. 3. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
11. Ruckert-Lieder (version for voice and piano): No. 4. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft
12. Ruckert-Lieder (version for voice and piano): No. 7. Liebst du um Schonheit
13. Ruckert-Lieder (version for voice and piano): No. 6. Um Mitternacht
14. Ruckert-Lieder (version for voice and piano): No. 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Swedish Mezzo-soprano and former winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Katarina Karnéus is joined on this disc by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki to perform three of Gustav Mahler’s orchestral songs.

As a composer, Gustav Mahler was absorbed by song and symphony as complementary genres deeply involved with each other. In his first symphony, Mahler included two themes from the song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, originally scored for voice and piano, which he had recently composed to his own poems. It was perhaps the experience of orchestrating these themes in his symphony that a few years later inspired Mahler to create the version for voice and orchestra.

All of the songs in Kindertotenlieder and Rückert-Lieder are settings of poems by the poet Friedrich Rückert, composed between 1901 and 1904. For Kindertotenlieder (Songs of the death of children) Mahler chose five of more than four hundred poems written by Rückert in reaction to the death of his two children: poems of despair, disbelief and resignation.

While Kindertotenlieder was conceived as a cycle, the Rückert-Lieder are more loosely connected with each other and they include some of the most sublime Mahlerian moments, for instance in Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.

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