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Having completed his musical training in Vienna and teeming with artistic ambition, Mahler in 1879 accepted a summer position with a well-to-do family in Hungary, where he was required to give their children piano lessons and occasionally, as he sardonically put it, “to send the family into musical raptures.” The 19-year-old clearly detested his status […]

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Frederica von Stade – “Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” from “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (Songs of a Wayfarer) – Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) – London Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by M.° Sir Andrew Davis.

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Alma Mahler – “Vier Lieder” (1915) – Licht in der Nacht (‘Light in the Night’; Bierbaum) – Waldseligkeit (‘Woodland Bliss’; Dehmel) – Ansturm (‘Storm’; Dehmel) – Erntelied (‘Harvest Song’; Falke) Ruth Ziesak, soprano (2,4) Iris Vermillion, mezzo-soprano (1) Christian Elsner, tenor (3) M.° Cord Garben, piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhsMTUjptew

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Gustav Mahler – “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (1883-1896) – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Philharmonia Orchestra – M.° Wilhelm Furtwängler. EMI – 1952. “In 1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler came to London to record Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde for EMI and agreed the recording should be produced by Walter Legge. This was in spite of the fact that Furtwängler […]

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Lorraine Hunt – “Der Abschied” – “Das Lied von der Erde” – Gustav Mahler Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – M.° Edo de Waart Conductor. Recorded on 26 September 1999. ‎”Das Lied von der Erde” (“The Song of the Earth”) is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. […]

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Alma Mahler – “Fünf Lieder” (Op. 38) (1910). Angelika Kirchschlager Mezzosoprano M.° Helmut Deutsch -piano. CD Lieder – Angelika Kirchschlager – 1997 – Sony Classical. Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. […]

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Kirsten Flagstad – “Wesendonck Lieder” – Richard Wagner – Farewell Concert, March 20 1955 – New York. Orchestra Symphony of the Air – M.° Edwin McArthur Conductor.

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Hanne-Lore Kuhse – “Mild und leise” (Isoldes Liebestod) – “Tristan und Isolde” III Act – Concert version by Humperdinck – Richard Wagner (1813-1883) – M.° Kurt Masur & Dresdner Philharmonie. CD Berlin Classics “”Best of Wagner” – Various Artists – 2012. “Mild und leise wie er lächelt, Wie das Auge hold er öffnet – Seht […]

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Christa Ludwig – “Der Engel” from “Wesendock Lieder – Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme” – Richard Wagner. Conductor M.° Otto Klemperer. 1962. “In der Kindheit frühen Tagen Hört ich oft von Engeln sagen, Die des Himmels hehre Wonne Tauschen mit der Erdensonne, Daß, wo bang ein Herz in Sorgen Schmachtet vor der Welt verborgen, Daß, […]

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Waltraud Meier – “Erlkönig” (D. 328) – Franz Schubert. Piano M.° Joseph Breinl. LIVE in Tokyo – 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GMyKJUwbZc