Mahler - Kindertotenlieder; R Strauss - Tod und Verklarung
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Label: Munchner Philharmoniker
Cat No: 9305211296
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 17th November 2017
Contents
Artists
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)Munchner Philharmoniker
Conductor
Sergiu CelibidacheWorks
KindertotenliederTod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), op.24
Artists
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)Munchner Philharmoniker
Conductor
Sergiu CelibidacheAbout
On their recently launched label MPHIL, the Munich Philharmonic is opening up its vast archives, giving listeners the opportunity to enjoy one of the richest collections of recordings by legendary artists. Because of the Celibidache era and its part in forming the core essence of the orchestra, this first MPHIL physical archive release consists of two recordings under the baton of Maestro Celibidache.
The chosen repertoire on the album is Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, recorded 30 June 1983 at the Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich and Richard Strauss’s Tod und Verklärung, recorded on 17 February 1979 also at the Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich.
For a long time, Tod und Verklärung was the most popular of Richard Strauss’s early tone poems. It contains a wide range of memorable motifs subtly differentiated with the result that its music recurs whenever there is mention of death or transfiguration in Strauss’s later output. Together with the innocent tone and positively artificial naïveté of the poems that attracted Gustav Mahler as a composer and prompted him to compose the Kindertotenlieder, this thoughtfully curated pairing creates an altogether intimate character while revealing an astonishing wealth of colours.
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder feature German mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, who holds the prestigious title “Kammersängerin” from the Bavarian State Opera and the Vienna State Opera.
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