Yvonne Minton sings Mahler
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4827169
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd November 2018
Contents
Works
Das Lied von der ErdeDes Knaben Wunderhorn
Artists
Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)Rene Kollo (tenor)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Georg SoltiWorks
Das Lied von der ErdeDes Knaben Wunderhorn
Artists
Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)Rene Kollo (tenor)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Georg SoltiAbout
Released as a filler on Side D for Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, the very first recording made by the CSO/Solti team that would become a byword for orchestral brilliance over the course of more than four decades, this 1970 account of four songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn perfectly illustrates Minton’s claim for Mahler as ‘a master storyteller’. She recalled of these early sessions together that ‘the rapport between Sir Georg and the orchestra was immediately apparent ... and the delicacy of touch was a wonder to behold.’ In the same sessions were taped Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, which were duly issued as a filler for Mahler’s Sixth in 1971.
That year Minton joined a galaxy of soloists and the CSO in Vienna to take her part in the now-legendary recording of the Eighth, but the true seal was set on the Decca-Mahler-Solti-Minton partnership in May 1972, with Das Lied von der Erde and its sublime embodiment of valediction in ‘Der Abschied’. Though he always had a genius for accompanying singers, this finds Solti at his most sympathetic as a conductor, allowing Minton all the space required to plant each step along the journey of growing solitude with the simplicity which she herself prized in Mahler’s music. Minton learnt the cycle from listening to the celebrated account made by Kathleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter in Vienna, and this recording is a worthy successor.
‘Minton exactly matches Solti’s style, consistently at her most perceptive and sensitive.’ – The Penguin Guide to Records (Das Lied von der Erde)
‘Minton makes a splendid soloist in these colourful songs.’ – The Penguin Guide to Records (Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
‘These beautiful, intense accounts of some of Mahler’s most attractive songs are well worth issuing separately ... Yvonne Minton has a superbly Mahlerian intensity and a quick understanding of the emotional centre of gravity in the more passionate or sombre songs. She consorts particularly well with Solti.’ – Gramophone, October 1974 (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
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