Mahler - Das Klagende Lied, Blumine, Symphony No.10
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG9371804
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 13th May 2013
Contents
Works
Blumine (original 2nd movement of Symphony no.1)Das klagende Lied (revised 1898 version)
Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (Adagio)
Artists
Manuela Uhl (soprano)Lioba Braun (alto)
Werner Gura (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Chorus Brno
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Conductor
Stefan BlunierWorks
Blumine (original 2nd movement of Symphony no.1)Das klagende Lied (revised 1898 version)
Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (Adagio)
Artists
Manuela Uhl (soprano)Lioba Braun (alto)
Werner Gura (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Chorus Brno
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Conductor
Stefan BlunierAbout
The Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, under its resourceful conductor Stefan Blunier, is in top form on this fascinatingly detailed look at Mahler’s compositional workshop.
Mahler’s early composition does in fact display everything that would distinguish his later oeuvre: biting irony and fateful tragedy, relaxed mirth and profound seriousness, and finely crafted poetry and the simple folk tone stand side by stand. And everything is presented on the haunted stage of a gruesome fairy tale exposing the composer’s inner turmoil to the light of day.
This oscillation between enthusiastic euphoria and profound depression would stay with Mahler until his death. And he did indeed know that he would not finish his Tenth Symphony (after Beethoven’s Ninth). He had deliberately chosen not to count two “song cycles” among his symphonies. Notes on the margin of the score reveal the personal anguish involved here: “To live for you! To die for you! Almschi!”. Did the idyllic “Blumine” andante, originally intended as the second movement of the first symphony, have to yield for similar reasons? Here misfortune is evidently already peering around the corner.
During recent years, Stefan Blunier has earned the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn a solid place in the discography with his outstanding programs and intelligent disposition. This fine 2+2+2 multichannel recording in the trademark no-frills natural sound of the MDG label positions Blunier on a fantastic sound stage. With expressive conducting and seeming effortlessness, he meets the challenge posed by the mighty breadth of this music, ranging from the pale, almost lifeless tones of the violas to the sumptuousness of colossal sound.
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