Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (recorded February 2011)
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (recorded February 2011)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) & Toby Spence (tenor) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
[ LPO Live / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 January 2014
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LPO Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has a great affinity with the German Romantic repertoire. His previous LPO Label disc, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, received great critical acclaim and is one of the most popular discs on the label.
In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Mahler married together for the first time the lyricism of the song-cycle and the formal ambition of the symphony, describing it as 'probably the most personal composition I have created thus far'.
This live 2011 concert recording from Royal Festival Hall features two of Britain's finest soloists: tenor Toby Spence and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, who is particularly renowned for her Mahler interpretations.
"it finds the tenor Toby Spence in ringing voice for the demanding Drinking Song...[Connolly] has rarely sung with such limpid beauty...Nézet-Seguin perfectly captures the yearning for lost youth and resigned acceptance of mortality that pervades Mahler's masterpiece." Sunday Times, 29th September 2013
"This strikes me as the real deal...The players, on top form, are participants rather than accompanists...For all that [Spence's] timbre is unmistakeably English, on CD at least he is never drowned out and there is much sensitivity too. What can there be left to say about Sarah Connolly, whose performances these days are pretty much beyond praise?" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, December 2013
