Mahler - The Song of the Earth (.: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter, Wierner Philharmoniker)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Das Lied Von der Erde / Le Chant de la Terre 🎧 Qobuz Tidal 🎧 Spotify Youtube Music 🎧 Apple Music Amazon Music 🎧 Deezer Amazon Store 🎧 Napster Soundcloud 🎧 LineMusic日本 Awa日本 *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-06:20) 00:00 I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde . The Drinking Song of Earth’s Sorrow Chanson à boire de la Douleur de la Terre 08:38 II. Der Einsame im Herbst . Autumn Loneliness . Le solitaire en Automne 17:55 III. Von der Jugend . Of Youth . De la Jeunesse 20:56 IV. Von der Schönheit . Of Beauty . De la Beauté 27:42 V. Der Trunkene im Frühling . The Drunkard in Spring . L’ Ivrogne au Printemps 32:09 VI. Der Abschied . The Farewell . L’Adieu Contralto : Kathleen Ferrier Tenor : Julius Patzak Wiener Philharmoniker CONDUCTOR: Bruno Walter Recorded in 1952, at Vienna New Mastering in 2021 by AB for CMRR 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : 🔊 Download CMRR’s recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) As a contralto soloist, there is Kathleen Ferrier, the British singer whose career only really began in 1943 at the age of thirty-one and lasted only ten glorious years until her death in 1953 from cancer. Walter passionately admired her singing (as did another Mahler protégé, Klemperer, with whom she sang in the Second Symphony). She first sang “The Song of the Earth“ with Walter at the first Edinburgh Festival in 1947 (with Peter Pears as tenor soloist). She was in tears near the end and omitted the last “ewig“. When she apologized to Walter for her unprofessional conduct, he responded beautifully, “My dear Miss Ferrier, if we were all artists like you, we would all have been in tears.“ Ferrier’s singing about Mahler was entirely intuitive. She had a natural sympathy for his idiom, an idiom she had to discover for herself, for there were few performances of Mahler during her formative days. It is hardly possible to listen to this recorded performance without considering the personal circumstances of the artists involved: Walter, the composer’s friend, and Ferrier, who knew while she was recording that this was her own “Abschied“ (32:09), that she would see the beautiful land turn green only once more. Like Mahler, she took up the challenge of a death sentence by reaching the peak of her art. *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-06:20) Mahler - Symphony No.1 ’’Titan’’ NEW MASTERING (Century’s rec.: Bruno Walter, New York Philharmonic): Gustav Mahler PLAYLIST (reference recordings):