Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Videos
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Messer Marta Krásová Antonio Pedrotti Pedrotti Gustav Mahler Dvořák Fibich Grieg Česká Filharmonie 1959
Provided to YouTube by Believe SAS Songs of a Wayfarer: No. 3, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer · Marta Krásová, Česká filharmonie, Antonio Pedrotti Mahler, Dvořák, Fibich & Grieg: Orchestral Songs (Mono Version) ℗ Believe Digital Released on: 1959-01-01 Author: Gustav Mahler Composer: Gustav Mahler Music Publisher: D.R Auto-generated by YouTube.
Sasha Cooke Schubert Mahler Houston Symphony
Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke joins the Houston Symphony for an evening of music by Schubert and Mahler. She sings Mahler's haunting "Songs of a Wayfarer," arranged for chamber orchestra on February 19 & 20. houstonsymphony.org/schubert
Eduard van Beinum's Mahler legacy consists of the Fourth Symphony, Das Lied von der Erde, and two versions of the Songs of a Wayfarer. For Mahler fans it is essential listening, because there wasn't that much Mahler around in the period 1948-57, when these recordings were made, and they compare very favorably with the contemporary competition (Mengelberg and Walter, specifically, in these same works). Fortunately Australian Eloquence has reissued them in perfectly decent mono sound. Essential for collectors.
Mahler Schubert Beethoven Schumann Siegfried Wagner Lowe 2010
Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen covers a wide range of emotions through unorthodox tonality, falling fourths and so on. One might say that this wayfaring lad is a nephew of the wanderer in Schubert's Winter Journey'. Both wayfarers were forsaken by their loved ones which plunged them into despair. In Mahler's case the cycle re-echoes his unhappy love affair with the actress Johanne Richter. Furthermore, unlike the cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, the poems were written by Mahler himself. In the first song the cheerful music which will enliven the wedding party soon takes on a gloomy atmosphere as the dejected lover tries to console himself with the beauties of nature by imitating the song of the birds as does young Siegfried in Wagner's opera of that name. But there is a sense of grief in the soft-footed piano accompaniment which brings into reality this self-deception. The steady rhythm in the piano part of the next song, which fluctuates between staccato and legato, seems to say that for the moment the youth is happy to share in spring's jubilation. In the last line of the song we come to realise that his yearning is all in vein. The fortissimo chords which herald in the voice in an outburst of despair in the following song has a suicidal ring to it. Here, the agony is so unbearable it seems as if a dagger has been plunged into his breast. His cries of bitter resentment to the pain that never rests is mirrored in the piano part. In the last, and most beautiful of the songs, the blue eyes of the young girl are the only consolation as the traveller sets out on his lonely journey with love and sorrow as his only companions. The tranquil movement of the song is akin to the 'Brook's Lullaby' with which Schubert brings his cycle Die schone Mullerin to a close. 1. On my sweetheart's wedding day 2. Walking in the fields today 3. I have a burning dagger in my heart 4. These two blue eyes Performed in his own translation by Jeffrey Benton, with Rona Lowe on Piano "The singer here has succeeded in demonstrating beyond doubt that German lieder can and should be performed in English. These excellent translations, which are his own, should convince anyone who hears them that only the SOUND of German is lost, but the marriage of words and music is as strong as ever". (reviewed 2010)
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