Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
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LPO–0073
© 2013 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
℗ 2013 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 19
February 2011
Producer: Andrew Walton, K&A Productions
Engineer: Mike Clements, K&A Productions
Total playing time: 64:05
DDD Stereo
Released October 2013
CD: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
LPO conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Das Lied von der Erde
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence tenor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Pieter Schoeman leader
In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Mahler married together for the first time the lyricism of the song-cycle and the formal ambition of the symphony. With texts based on Chinese poems reflecting on themes of life and death, it contains some of the composer’s most bittersweet music – joyful exuberance one moment, anguished heartbreak the next. Ever aware of his own mortality, Mahler was drawn to the poems’ highly concentrated reflections on natural beauty, the transience of human existence and the inevitable acceptance of death, describing Das Lied von der Erde as ‘probably the most personal composition I have created thus far’.
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Gramophone Editor's Choice December 2013 and one of the Classical Recordings of the Year 2013
The music-making is remarkable ... What can there be left to say about Sarah Connolly, whose performances these days are pretty much beyond praise?
David Gutman, Gramophone
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