Mahler – Alto CD

Mahler: Symphony No.7

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:45:56 +0000

[BBC Music Magazine’s Disc of the Month]: ‘Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there’s a sense that something special is afoot here … Gergiev charts the whole labyrinthine course with thrilling assurance [whilst] the virtuosity and sensitivity of the L.S.O – is a continual exhilarating delight.’
’ [The Times]: “This is a terrific, gripping performance from Gergiev and the L.S.O of Mahler’s Seventh, an edge-of-the-seat experience … Gergiev brings an almost palpable darkness, fear and mystery to the three central movements, giving an impression, in the central scherzo, of hot, tormenting laser lights darting in from all angles, and he imbues the outer movements with an almost frenzied momentum.”

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

[1] I. Langsam (Adagio) – Allegro con fuoco 20:52
[2] II. Nachtmusik: Allegro moderato 13:48
[3] III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft 9:12
[4] IV. Nachtmusik: Andante amoroso 11:50
[5] V. Rondo-Finale: Allegro ordinario –
Allegro moderato ma energico 16:14

Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie / Mahler: Adagio (Symphony 10)

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:43:43 +0000

“the truly astonishing playing of the Orchestra … all sections cover themselves with glory … exciting sound of the off-stage horns, woodwind full and mellow-toned …the storm is impressive … and perfect tribute to the conducting” (Gramophone)

Kathleen Ferrier sings Lieder

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:49 +0000

“In the Brahms and Mahler everything benefits from the loveliness of voice and sincerity of approach. Finest of all, I think, are the Vier ernste Gesänge, the voice at its most sumptuous and utterly right for the songs, the style having noble breadth and authority as well as keeping compassionate personal contact.” (© Gramophone). “I adore the Frauenliebe and I can see that girl growing up from a child to a woman – and these light songs are all the highlights of joy and sorrow” (Kathleen Ferrier)

Kindertotenlieder (Mahler / Rückert)

1. Nunn will die Sonn’ 4:49
2. Nun seh’ ich wohl 4:37
3. Wenn dein Mütterlein 4:31
4. Oft denk’ ich 2:56
5. In diesem Wetter 6:23

Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42 (song-cycle) (Schumann)

6. Seit ich ihn gesehen 2:40
7. Er der herrlichste von allen 3:19
8. Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben 1:59
9. Du Ring an meinem Finger 3:00
10. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern 2:05
11. Süsser Freund 3:52
12. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust 1:24
13. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan 3:56

Vier Ernste Gesänge Op.121 (Brahms)

14. No.1: Denn es gehet dem Menschen 4:59
15. No.2: Ich wandte mich und sahe 4:22
16. No.3: O Tod, wie bitter 4:12
17. No.4: Wenn ich mit Menschen – und mit Engelszungen redete 4:53
18. Gestille Sehnsucht Op.91 No.1 (Brahms / Rückert) 5:10
19. Geistliches Wiegenlied Op.91 No.2 (Brahms / Geibel)
with Max Gilbert (viola) 5:10
20. Sappische Ode (Brahms / Schmidt) 2:48
21. Botschaft (Brahms / Daumer) 2:08

Kathleen Ferrier Sings Mahler

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:37:19 +0000

“A finer performance than this would not be a song of earth”, wrote the Record Guide (Collins, 1955) of this legendary performance which was recorded in Vienna in May 1952. … And beyond this there is Ferrier, an artist born to sing this music and singing it here at a time so close to her own death as to make this a real, truly harrowing song of farewell.”
– Gramophone
“Ferrier’s recording of three of the Rückert Lieder, heartfelt and monumental…magnetically intense.”
– Penguin Guide

• In May 1952, four of Mahler’s greatest interpreters — Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, Mahler’s protégé Bruno, and the Vienna Philharmonic — made a recording of the composer’s Das Lied that is hailed to this day as one of the greatest classical recordings ever issued
• Also includes the three Rückert-Lieder recorded by Ferrier and Walter
• An essential disc for any classical fan — at an unbeatable price!

Gustav Mahler

3 Rückert-Lieder

1 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 5:33
2 Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft 2:49
3 Um Mitternacht 6:26

Das Lied von der Erde

4 Das Trinkleid vom Jammer der Erde 8:35
5 Der Einsame im Herbst 9:14
6 Von der Jugend 3:03
7 Von der Schönheit 6:44
8 Der Trunkene im Frühling 4:26
9 Der Abschied 28:01

Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Julius Patzak, tenor
Vienna Philharmonic
Bruno Walter