TRACK INFORMATION ENGLISH DEUTSCH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT MORE Mahler Song Cycles Kindertotenlieder Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Rückert-Lieder Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Marc Albrecht TRACK INFORMATION ENGLISH DEUTSCH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT MORE Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen 1 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 4. 03 2 2. Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld 4. 18 3 3. Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer 3. 17 4 4. Die zwei blauen Augen 5. 25 Rückert-Lieder 5 1. Ich atmet einen linden Duft 2. 40 6 2. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! 1. 28 7 3. Liebst du um Schönheit 2. 09 8 4. Um Mitternacht 6. 05 ← ← 9 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 6. 33 Kindertotenlieder 10 1. Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgehen 5. 38 11 2. Nun seh’ ich wohl. warum so dunkle Flammen 4. 47 12 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein 4. 46 13 4. Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen 3. 06 14 5. In diesem Wetter! 6. 59 Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano Total playing time: 61. 35 Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Marc Albrecht mezz Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) The mirror of the soul – into a symphonic context (for example, very closely connected to the Symphony will send the final lied, even though the Similar to Schubert’s Winterreise (= mood of the journeyman. None of the Messer” (= I have a gleaming knife), At the beginning of the new century, Even in the late 19th century, child by Mahler for his Kindertotenlieder are intense vocal expressiveness required Alice Coote regarded as one of the great artists of English Concert, Kammerphilharmonie in welcoming and developing new people. Therefore its mission is to help Festival and again led Berg’s “Lulu” with as with the Accademia Nazionale di Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Mahler’s orchestral songs in his Wunderhorn Symphonies, No. 1. They are first mentioned in a letter meagre words cannot convey even a winter journey), the cycle deals with four songs offer the listener any kind the middle part of which is written Mahler discovered the poetry of death was still more the rule than the suffused with consolation and hope. in these lieder. “Emotion brimming up Mezzo-soprano today. Bremen, Hallé and Concertgebouw; musical talent. Marc Albrecht has been make classical music accessible to the Vienna Philharmonic in 2010. He Santa Cecilia in Rome. He gave guest 1 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 4. 03 Nos. 1 – 4), he also combined the art from Mahler dated January 1, 1885, to small part of it. The lieder are planned the wanderings of a journeyman whose of mitigation or even relief. Certainly, in a rudimentary C major constantly Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866). Until exception. Friedrich Rückert also lost his Thus the deceased children “had merely to the lips, but not overflowing them” she has collaborated with conductors the chief conductor of the Netherlands everyone. also conducts regularly at the Zurich performances in the USA at Saint Louis 2 2. Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld 4. 18 Lied and symphony are inseparably forms in his unique late work, Das Lied his former student friend Friedrich Löhr, as a whole in such a way as to depict a love for a girl remains unfulfilled. The there are moments of happiness in under threat from dissonants. Here, then, he had only adapted and set two little daughters. By writing no less gone ahead” on the journey to the – with these words, Mahler described World renowned Mezzo-soprano Alice The recital platform is central to such as Gergiev, Dohnanyi, Belohavek, Philharmonic Orchestra/Netherlands Opera, leading “Tannhäuser” and “Die and Dallas Symphony and Cleveland 3 3. Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer 3. 17 connected in Gustav Mahler’s oeuvre. von der Erde (= the song of the earth). to whom he relates his unfulfilled love travelling journeyman now setting out journeyman wanders in search of nature – for instance, in the short E flat too, a vision, a dream, a memory to music poems from Des Knaben than 428 Kindertotenlieder (= songs on hereafter, and had found their peace the lied “Ich bin der Welt abhanden Coote is regarded as one of the great her musical life, and she performs Salonen, Elder, Boulez, Jurowski and Chamber Orchestra since the beginning Marc Albrecht Soldaten” (direction Calixto Bieito) in Orchestra and in May 2017 at Houston 4 4. Die zwei blauen Augen 5. 25 As early as 1923, his close friend, Willem A fundamental feature of Mahler’s for the singer Johanna Richter: “I was into the world and wandering solitary happiness, only to fail at the end. His major middle section of “Wenn mein emerges; however, annoying reality Wunderhorn (= the youth’s magic the death of children), Rückert set out “as if in their mother’s home.” Mahler’s gekommen” (= I have become lost to artists of our day. Equally famed on throughout the UK, Europe and the US, Järvi. of the 2011/2012 season. Conductor 2013 and “Der Freischütz” in September Symphony. Mahler Mengelberg, had already recognized the orchestral lieder is the often ruthless sitting alone with her last night, and in pursuit of his destiny.” Here, Mahler’s journey through the varying stages of Schatz” (= when my sweetheart) or in is quick to take over. The tam-tam horn). Anton von Webern recalled to deal with the death of the children polyphonic compositions provide a the world) according to Natalie Bauer- the great operatic stages as in concert at the Wigmore Hall (where she has 2016. In March 2013 he gave his debut Rückert-Lieder significance of the lied genre for Mahler: contrasting of harsh reality with a we awaited in all but silence the arrival use of the word “lieder” does not refer emotions can also be followed in the the celebration of pastoral beauty in beat allows the lied to fade away in a Mahler’s utterances: “After Des Knaben in his poetry. Nevertheless, it would be peaceful, spiritual, and highly subtle Lechner – and further he added: “that it and recital she has been named been a resident artist), the BBC Proms, Netherlands Philharmonic Two of the Netherlands Philharmonic Since 2011 Marc Albrecht is Music at Teatro della Scala Milano with “Die Marc Albrecht has made a sequence 5 1. Ich atmet einen linden Duft 2. 40 “The core of Mahler’s music is the folk beautiful dream world. Since the Lieder of the new year. Her thoughts were not to the compositions, but rather to the choice of keys: from D minor at the the “schönen Welt” (= lovely world). But musical symbolisation of death. The Wunderhorn, I could only turn to Rückert wrong to seek some sort of biographical sound palette full of self-reflection, was himself.” All 10 songs demonstrate the ‘superlative British Mezzo’ (San Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Orchestra Orchestra’s most important trademarks Director of the Netherlands Frau ohne Schatten” (direction Claud of acclaimed recordings for PentaTone Song 6 2. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! 1. 28 song.” Indeed, numerous reciprocal eines fahrenden Gesellen (= songs of a dwelling on the present moment, and poems, which he himself had written. beginning to F minor at the end. The these moments are only short-lived, fourth lied is a funeral march. Here, – that is first-hand poetry, everything connection in Mahler’s case to the with splashes of renunciation and Mahler’s new basic attitude to life and Francisco Chronicle). Her performances the Lincoln Centre NY and Carnegie are its inviting programming and Philharmonic, the Netherlands Guth). He gave guest performances records with the Netherlands 7 3. Liebst du um Schönheit 2. 09 links as regards both content and travelling journeyman), love and death when the bell struck and tears fell from No exact data is available with regard journeyman takes his first steps in D for the ecstatic image of nature turns the journeyman bids farewell to life else is second-hand.” Rückert’s poetic composition of his fiveKindertotenlieder . resignation. In a letter to Gisela Tolnay- death, which he adopted following have been described as ‘breathtaking Hall, among many other prestigious The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra its accessible concert presentation. Chamber Orchestra and the Dutch at the Bayreuth Festival (2003-2006) Philharmonic Orchestra, including 8 4. Um Mitternacht 6. 05 compositional structure can be found were to form the central themes of her eyes, I felt so terrible that I, I should to the period of the composition. minor, reaching G minor at the end of out to be a mere illusion. In “Wenn and love. However, not without first a oeuvre was widespread and highly For although his daughter Anna Maria Witt discussing the “acquisition of new his life-threatening illness in 1901 and in [its] sheer conviction and subtlety of venues. Most recently, she has debuted is one of the most versatile cultural Everyone is welcome to a Netherlands National Opera. In May 2016 the with “Der fliegende Holländer”. Vienna’s Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” in 2013 Cycles 9 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 6. 33 in Mahler’s lieder and symphonies. In the template chosen by Mahler for the not be allowed to dry them. She went Circumstantial evidence suggests the first lied, which transitions into the mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” (= when visionary final episode in a major-key popular throughout the German- died at only five years old in 1907, the emotional moments”, he justified his his ensuing decision to discontinue perception’ (The Times) and her voice Schubert’s Winterreise at ‘’The Stars of organisations in The Netherlands. The Philharmonic Orchestra concert, National Opera Amsterdam was Theater an der Wien regularly invites and Mahler’s “Symphony no.