Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Winterlied (A Winter’s Song)
A listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Winterlied with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
22 Mar 20211min
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Intro
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’) is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four Lieder for low voice (often performed by women as well as men) was written ...
22 Mar 20214min
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Die Zwei Blauen Augen (The Two Blue Eyes)
The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo “Funeral March in Callot’s manner”), is subdued and gentle, lyrical and often reminiscent of...
22 Mar 202117min
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ich Hab’ Ein Glühend Messer (I Have A Glowing Knife)
The third movement is a full display of despair. Entitled “Ich hab’ein glühend Messer” (“I Have a Gleaming Knife”), the Wayfarer likens his agony of lost love to having an actual metal blade piercing ...
22 Mar 202112min
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ging Heut’ Morgens Über’s Feld (I Went Out This Morning Over The Fields)
The second movement, “Ging heut Morgen übers Feld” (“I Went This Morning over the Field”), contains the happiest music of the work. Indeed, it is a song of joy and wonder at the beauty of nature in si...
22 Mar 202111min
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Wenn Mein Schatz Hochzeit Macht (When My Sweetheart Gets Married)
The first movement is entitled “Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” (“When My Sweetheart is Married”), and the text discusses the Wayfarer’s grief at losing his love to another. He remarks on the beauty ...
22 Mar 20219min
Mahler Das Klagende Lied – Intro
Das klagende Lied is a work in which Mahler comes closest to the opera. This is because the composition is pervaded by drama and its elaboration in a text that regularly gets the character of a theatr...
22 Mar 20217min
Mahler Das Klagende Lied – Die Hochzeitstück (The Wedding Party)
On the day that the minstrel arrives at the castle there is just a party going on for the occasion of the upcoming wedding of the queen and the eldest brother. The murderer is pale and feels guilty ab...
22 Mar 202125min
