Artist: Katharina Kammerloher, Arttu Kataja, Eric Schneider
Title: Mahler: Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm
Genre: Classical
Quality:  flac 24bits - 96.0kHz + Booklet
Total Time: 01:16:57
Total Size:  1.38 gb

Tracklist

01. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Lob des hohen Verstands
02. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
03. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Ablösung im Sommer
04. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
05. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Selbstgefühl
06. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Verlorne Müh'!
07. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!
08. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Aus! Aus!
09. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Scheiden und Meiden
10. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Trost im Unglück
11. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen
12. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Schildwache Nachtlied
13. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Nicht Wiedersehen!
14. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz
15. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm
16. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
17. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg'sell
18. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Das irdische Leben
19. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Revelge
20. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Urlicht

Gustav Mahler's songs from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" are probably among the most abysmal ever written for voice. Katharina Kammerloher and Arttu Kataja plumb the depths and shallows of this music, accompanied by Eric Schneider, who brings drama and expression to the ludicrously difficult piano part Piano part with drama and expression. Mahler deliberately chose the folksong-like collection by the Romantics Chamisso and von Arnim. The songs are so immediately moving, they they deal with love and loss, misery and existential distress - and repeatedly with war and death. The humor is often deep black, mostly sarcastic and sometimes even comes across as wonderfully grimacing and distorted. The most haunting pieces, however, are those that seem quite simple on the surface, "Revelge", for example, "Das irdische Leben" or the sheer endless march of "Tamboursg'sell" "Tamboursg'sell". The intensity of these pieces gets right under your skin, partly because Kammerloher and Kataja make the dramatic eruptions seem unaffected and with great truthfulness. The two singers from the Berlin State Opera act with vocal power and striking presence, tongue-in-cheek where necessary ("Lob des hohen Verstandes" or "Des Antonio von Padua Fischpredigt") and beguilingly simple, as in the concluding "Urlicht", which was later to become a central component of the 2nd Symphony. All in all: a panopticon of human existence that Mahler must have been immensely fascinated by and should leave no one cold, even today or especially today.