Mahler Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus
A listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus with Lew Smoley.
22 Mar 202121min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Intro
Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) is a composition for two voices and orchestra by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Composed between Year 1908 and Year 1909 following the most painful period in ...
22 Mar 202125min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied
The final movement is nearly as long as the previous five movements combined. Its text is drawn from two different poems, both involving the theme of leave-taking. Mahler himself added the last lines....
22 Mar 20211h 43min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling
The second scherzo of the work is provided by the fifth movement. Like the first, it opens with a horn theme. In this movement Mahler uses an extensive variety of key signatures, which can change as o...
22 Mar 202131min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit
The music of this movement is mostly soft and legato, meditating on the image of some 'young girls picking lotus flowers at the riverbank'. Later in the movement there is a louder, more articulated se...
22 Mar 202128min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Jugend
The third movement is the most obviously pentatonic and faux-Asian. The form is ternary, the third part being a greatly abbreviated revision of the first. It is also the shortest of the six movements,...
22 Mar 202114min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Einsame im Herbst
This movement is a much softer, less turbulent movement. Marked ‘somewhat dragging and exhausted’, it begins with a repetitive shuffling in the strings, followed by solo wind instruments. The orchestr...
22 Mar 202132min
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
The first movement continually returns to the refrain, Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod (literally, 'Dark is life, is death'), which is pitched a semitone higher on each successive appearance. Like m...
22 Mar 202144min
