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stunning planet earth clips with the music of Jean Michel Jarre.
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Bruno Walter’s 1960 Columbia recording of Mahler’s song symphony “Song of the Earth” (”Das Lied von der Erde”), the composition that fell between his Eighth and Ninth Symphonies and would have been No. 9 if he hadn’t been so superstitious about allotting that fateful number to a symphony, was originally released on three LP sides. ….
…fliger — a studio replacement, you’ll recall, for the English tenor Richard Lewis, who sang in Walter’s live New York performances that April but had only months earlier recorded Das Lied with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony for RCA. (We’re going to hear some of that performance tomorrow night.)Inevitably, the attention of the Das Lied listener gravitates to the generally weightier alto songs, Nos. 2, 4, and 6. The alto has the two longest (No. 2, “On Beauty,” in addition to “The Farewell”) and the tenor the two shortest (No. 3, “On Youth,” in addition to “The Drunk in Spring”). As I’ve lived with this music, however, I’ve found myself gravitating to the more laconic, even engimatic tenor songs.I thought this week we would listen just to the three tenor songs, and naturally, the way we do things here at Sunday Classics, we’re going to approach them backwards, starting with “Der Trunkene im…
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In Mahler’s "Song Of The Earth" We Meet A Springtime Drunk
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