Mahler: Totenfeier & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

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Jurowski brings Mahler's tragic worlds - both cosmic and human - alive with incomparable vividness...Details leaps out in the fine balance of the Wayfarer Songs, too. Sarah Connolly holds her... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: SIGCD259
Label: Signum
Series: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Length: 38 minutes

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Mahler: Totenfeier

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Vladimir Jurowski

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sarah Connolly
Vladimir Jurowski

Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht

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Ging heut’ morgen übers Feld

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Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer

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Die zwei blauen Augen

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In this live recording from the Royal Festival Hall the OAE shines its musical torch into the realms of some later repertoire, shedding new light on the music of Mahler. Conducted by Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski, this CD includes Mahler’s 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' (Songs of a Wayfarer), written in the wake of an unhappy affair with a soprano, and the extraordinarily exciting and powerful 'Totenfeier', Mahler’s first foray into orchestral music, and later reworked into the opening movement of his second symphony.

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January 2013

Jurowski brings Mahler's tragic worlds - both cosmic and human - alive with incomparable vividness...Details leaps out in the fine balance of the Wayfarer Songs, too. Sarah Connolly holds her own against the orchestra's briefly raised voice here...but finds all the introspection Mahler could wish for as bright morning ebbs away in the second song.

December 2012

While Connolly's dark vocal hues fully convey Mahler's melancholy, her singing offers few of the glimpses of joy that ultimately makes the music far more tragic. Beyond that, however, the OAE provide seomthing all too rare in the Mahler catalogue...this is a recognisable portrait of Mahler as a young man, rather than an elder composer of 10 symphonies looking backwards.

December 2012

The sound of even so vast an array of period instruments in full cry is slimmer than a modern orchestra but it has a clarity and visceral impact in this live recording that is startlingly effective...[Connolly] is very fine indeed, sailing effortlessly into her upper register but always with a rich and creamy sound

22nd November 2012

The OAE's period instruments emphasise [Totenfeier]'s rawness, just as they point up the anguished detail of the accompaniments to the Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, in which mezzo Sarah Connolly allows the words and Mahler's treatment of them to speak for themselves, without unnecessary gilding.

3rd November 2012

[Totenfeier is] an intriguing piece, rendered here with typical panache by the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment, and accompanied by Sarah Connolly's poised delivery of Mahler's four "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen".

29th September 2012

rich, ardent singing of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.

17th November 2012

Jurowski’s wonderful orchestra play like angels, the narrow-bore brass incredibly present but never strident. Jurowski also understands the Mahler idiom, with elegant, restrained string portamenti in the work’s reflective moments. Magical. And so is Sarah Connolly’s vocal in the Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, her voice perfectly attuned to the colours made by the OAE’s winds.

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