Composer: Gustav Mahler
Performer: Piotr Beczala, Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 19658795702
Release: 2023
Size: 965 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Das Lied von der Erde
01. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
02. Der Einsame im Herbst
03. Der Pavillon aus Porzellan
04. Am Ufer
05. Der Trinker im Frühling
06. Der Abschied
Christian Gerhaher’s recording of Mahler’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ in a version with piano featuring tenor Piotr Beczala and pianist Gerold Huber. ‘This recording of ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ does not represent a preliminary stage in Mahler’s compositional process but stands alongside it as its equal. The piano version of ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ is more daring and at the same time more intimate, forcing the singers to sing in a different, more subtly nuanced, way than they would with an orchestra, while listeners are obliged to listen more intently and to prolong the abstract sound in their imaginations until it acquires the rhetorical colour that is implied by Mahler’s music.’