Kindertotenlieder

by Gustav Mahler

Kindertotenlieder cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1952
  • Label: Columbia Masterworks
  • Country: Austria
  • Length: 23:28
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Regarded as one of the most devastatingly emotional recordings in the classical catalog, this interpretation of Mahler's tragic song cycle is universally revered. Kathleen Ferrier's profound, incredibly resonant contralto pairs flawlessly with the sympathetic, masterful conducting of Bruno Walter. Captured shortly before her tragic death, the performance imbues the composer's meditations on loss with an almost unbearable, autobiographical weight.

Genres

Descriptors: death, orchestral, vocal, German language, melodic, symphonic

Tracklist

  1. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n (4:52)
  2. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 2, Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (4:39)
  3. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 3, Wenn dein M眉tterlein tritt zur T眉r herein (4:31)
  4. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 4, Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen! (2:55)
  5. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 5, In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus (6:30)

Credits

  • Lee Hazlewood - written-by
  • Mike Leander - written-by

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