Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau - Gustav Mahler: Erinnerung - Lieder (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 226 Mb | Total time: 66:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 905338 | Recorded: 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 226 Mb | Total time: 66:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 905338 | Recorded: 2020
For her first solo recital on harmonia mundi, Christiane Karg, alongside her faithful partner Malcolm Martineau, presents an incursion into the most intimate aspect of Mahler’s music: the songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn take us to the heart of the composer’s creative process, as do the songs from his youth and the later Rückert-Lieder. Intimate? Yes, for two of these pieces (including the famous Das himmsliche Leben from Symphony no.4) are accompanied here by . . . Mahler himself, thanks to the achievement of the incredible Welte-Mignon piano rolls, which, at the very start of the twentieth century, captured his playing far better than any other recording device of the period could.