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Sarah Connolly, OAE, Vladimir Jurowski - Mahler: Totenfeier & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (2012)

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Date: 30 Sep 2023 10:19:43

Sarah Connolly, OAE, Vladimir Jurowski - Mahler: Totenfeier & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (2012)

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 album includes the 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.

On this 2012 release from Signum Classics, Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment present two of Gustav Mahler's youthful works, the tone poem Totenfeier, and the song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. These works were major accomplishments for the struggling composer, and both were important in Mahler's later development as a symphonist. "Totenfeier" became (with some changes) the first movement of the Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection," and the melodies of the lieder Ging heut'morgen übers Feld and Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz became major themes in his Symphony No. 1. These performances are energetic, crisp, and committed, and Sarah Connolly's singing is especially lovely in the lieder. The only problem with the CD is the low volume level, which requires a high setting to hear details clearly and to get decent sound and dimensions. But taken as a whole, this is a good presentation of early Mahler from which newcomers to his music can benefit.

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Don’t be misled by the CD’s short duration into thinking you’re getting less than the full measure of live music-making: Vladimir Jurowski brings Mahler’s tragic worlds – both cosmic and human – alive with incomparable vividness. It would be hard to better his LPO account of the full Resurrection Symphony (reviewed August 2011). But Jurowski reverts to Mahler’s earliest draft of the first movement, Totenfeier, which brings a different kind of edge to the funeral rites. That’s instantly apparent from the outset – in the furious string tremolos and the woodwind’s bite – though a softer effect is achieved in the brief idyll that launches the development. It’s only then that you begin to hear Mahler’s truly unorthodox way of unleashing fire and brimstone; elsewhere, you’ll notice how he later revised his orchestration, highlighted in this recording by its exemplary clarity of textures.

Detail leaps out in the fine balance of the Wayfarer Songs, too. Sarah Connolly holds her own against the orchestra’s briefly raised voice here. She begins almost as earthily as the peasant band playing at the wedding of the lost sweetheart, but finds all the introspection Mahler could wish for as bright morning ebbs away in the second song. Sweet oblivion beckons at the end.

Review by David Nice, BBC Music Magazine

Sarah Connolly at Allmusic
Sarah Connolly at Wiki

Vladimir Jurowski at Allmusic
Vladimir Jurowski at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Totenfeier (Sinfonische Dichtung) (22:32)

02. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (03:38)
03. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: II. Ging heut' morgen ?bers Feld (03:46)
04. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: III. Ich hab' ein gl?hend Messer (03:07)
05. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (05:11)

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