Composer: Gustav Mahler, Thibault Bertin-Maghit, Philippe Hersant
Performer: Collectif9
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA770
Release: 2021
Size: 923 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: Like a Sound of Nature (From Symphony No. 1)
02. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: The Hunter’s Funeral (From Symphony No. 1)
03. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: Funeral March (From Symphony No. 2)
04. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: Ländler (From Symphony No. 2)
05. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: I Have a Burning Knife (From Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen)
06 .Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: Funeral March (From Symphony No. 5)
07. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: The Farewell (From Das Lied von der Erde)
08. Hersant: Fantaisie à la manière de callot
09. Mahler, Bertin-Maghit: Phantasie aus Don Juan – Imagination (From Lieder und Gesänge, Vol. 1)
Collectif 9 is a Montreal-based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large-scale works. Alpha is starting a collaboration with this innovative group and now presents its very first album, recorded in 2018 and consisting of music by (and inspired by) Gustav Mahler, “No Time for Chamber Music”, a nod to Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, inspired in its turn by Mahler’s Second Symphony.
Mahler himself often quoted his own works, and his rich instrumental textures have provided a source of inspiration for composers and arrangers alike. The programme begins with two works drawn from his First Symphony, “Comme un bruit de la nature” (Like a sound of Nature) and “L’Enterrement du chasseur” (The hunter’s Burial), inspired by a woodcut by the nineteenth-century artist Moritz von Schwind in which the animals mourn the death of the hunter.
The ensemble’s double bass player, Thibault Bertin-Maghit, made the arrangements, while Philippe Hersant has written a Fantaisie based on fragments from a number of works by Mahler.