Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Piano Quartet in A minor (incomplete)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Berceuse élégiaque, for orchestra, Op. 42, KiV 252a
"New release of Mahler chamber music" sounds like a headline from the classical edition of the U.S. satirical weekly The Onion, but the arrangements on this album by Italian group Musici Aurei are quite a bit more authentic than one might think. For one thing, the arrangement of the songs from Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen were done by Arnold Schoenberg, a short generation after Mahler, and the other arrangements, by Schoenberg's student Erwin Stein and even the later rendering of the Kindertotenlieder by Reiner ...
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"New release of Mahler chamber music" sounds like a headline from the classical edition of the U.S. satirical weekly The Onion, but the arrangements on this album by Italian group Musici Aurei are quite a bit more authentic than one might think. For one thing, the arrangement of the songs from Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen were done by Arnold Schoenberg, a short generation after Mahler, and the other arrangements, by Schoenberg's student Erwin Stein and even the later rendering of the Kindertotenlieder by Reiner Riehm, follow more or less in Schoenberg's mold. Making chamber arrangements of orchestral music was still a common way of hearing and studying it in the era before LP recordings. And perhaps the best reason to hear Mahler this way is to experience his vocal works as sung by Sara Mingardo, a contralto usually oriented toward the Baroque. She's a force of nature, with a rather chilling effect as she climbs into the near soprano range, and though it would be worth hearing her with a...
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