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209 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMahler Foundation is the center for education and promotion of the music of Gustav Mahler to everyone around the world.
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Urlicht
March 23, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBA listening guide of Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Urlicht with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Die Zwei Blauen Augen (The Two Blue Eyes)
March 23, 2021 18:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBThe final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo “Funeral March in Callot’s manner”), is subdued and gentle, lyrical and often reminiscent of a chorale in its harmonies. Its title, “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” (“The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved”), deals with how the image of those eyes has caused the Wayfarer so much grief that he can no longer stand to be in the environment. He describes lying down under a linden tree, ...
Klavierquartett - Piano Quartet Movement in A minor (1876)
March 23, 2021 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MBGustav Mahler score Klavierquartett, piano quartet, Movement 1: in A. --- A listening guide of Klavierquartett with Lew Smoley.
Mahler Kindertotenlieder – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.24 MBKindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Ruckert (1788-1866). The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833-1834 in an outpouring of grief following the illness (scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: “Rückert’s 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the...
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBThe music of this movement is mostly soft and legato, meditating on the image of some 'young girls picking lotus flowers at the riverbank'. Later in the movement there is a louder, more articulated section in the brass as the young men ride by on their horses. There is a long orchestral postlude to the sung passage, as the most beautiful of the young maidens looks longingly after the most handsome of the young men. --- A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit with Le...
Mahler Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus with Lew Smoley.
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBThe final movement is nearly as long as the previous five movements combined. Its text is drawn from two different poems, both involving the theme of leave-taking. Mahler himself added the last lines. This final song is also notable for its text-painting, using a mandolin to represent the singer’s lute, imitating bird calls with woodwinds, and repeatedly switching between the major and minor modes to articulate sharp contrasts in the text. --- A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – D...
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Starke Einbildungskraft (Strong Imagination)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.48 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Starke Einbildungskraft with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Winterlied (A Winter’s Song)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.37 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Winterlied with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Jugend
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBThe third movement is the most obviously pentatonic and faux-Asian. The form is ternary, the third part being a greatly abbreviated revision of the first. It is also the shortest of the six movements, and can be considered a first scherzo. First this movement was called ‘Der Pavillon aus Porzellan’ (‘The pavilion made of porcelain’). --- A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Jugend with Lew Smoley.
Das Klagende Lied – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MBA listening guide of Das Klagende Lied – Intro with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Der Einsame im Herbst
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Einsame im Herbst with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Das Klagende Lied – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MBDas klagende Lied is a work in which Mahler comes closest to the opera. This is because the composition is pervaded by drama and its elaboration in a text that regularly gets the character of a theatrically very effective dialogue. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was fourteen years old when his younger brother Ernst Mahler (1862-1875) died. The loss touched him deeply and gave him a gnawing guilt. A few years later he started Das klagende Lied, his first major work. Mahler himself wrote the text....
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Zu Strassburg Auf Der Schanz (At Strasbourg On The Battlement)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.57 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Zu Strassburg Auf Der Schanz with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Die Zwei Blauen Augen (The Two Blue Eyes)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBThe final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo “Funeral March in Callot’s manner”), is subdued and gentle, lyrical and often reminiscent of a chorale in its harmonies. Its title, “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” (“The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved”), deals with how the image of those eyes has caused the Wayfarer so much grief that he can no longer stand to be in the environment. He describes lying down under a linden tree, ...
Das Lied von der Erde – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Intro with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Serenade Aus Don Juan
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.49 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Serenade Aus Don Juan with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Jugend
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Jugend with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Frühlingsmorgen (Spring Morning)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.69 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Frühlingsmorgen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Un Schlimme Kinder Artig Zu Machen (To Make Bad Children Good)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 2.79 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Un Schlimme Kinder Artig Zu Machen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBThe first movement continually returns to the refrain, Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod (literally, 'Dark is life, is death'), which is pitched a semitone higher on each successive appearance. Like many drinking poems by Li Bai, the original poem 'Bei Ge Xing' (a pathetic song) mixes drunken exaltation with a deep sadness. The singer's part is notoriously demanding, since the tenor has to struggle at the top of his range against the power of the full orchestra. This gives the voice its shr...
Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – In diesem Wetter, In diesem Braus with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Kindertotenlieder – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.24 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – Intro with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Kindertotenlieder – Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Kindertotenlieder – Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.37 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Kindertotenlieder – Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Kindertotenlieder – Wenn dein Mütterlein
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3.11 MBA listening guide of Kindertotenlieder – Wenn dein Mütterlein with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBA listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Einsame im Herbst
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBThis movement is a much softer, less turbulent movement. Marked ‘somewhat dragging and exhausted’, it begins with a repetitive shuffling in the strings, followed by solo wind instruments. The orchestration in this movement is sparse and chamber music-like, with long and independent contrapuntal lines. The lyrics, which are based on the first part of a Tang Dynasty era poem by Qian Qi, lament the dying of flowers and the passing of beauty, as well as expressing an exhausted longing for sleep...
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Die Zwei Blauen Augen (The Two Blue Eyes)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBA listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Die Zwei Blauen Augen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ging Heut’ Morgens Über’s Feld (I Went Out This Morning Over The Fields)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 8.09 MBA listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ging Heut’ Morgens Über’s Feld with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ich Hab’ Ein Glühend Messer (I Have A Glowing Knife)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.64 MBA listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Ich Hab’ Ein Glühend Messer with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 2.99 MBA listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Intro with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Wenn Mein Schatz Hochzeit Macht (When My Sweetheart Gets Married)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.22 MBA listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Wenn Mein Schatz Hochzeit Macht with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ablösung Im Sommer (Relief In Summer)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ablösung Im Sommer with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Aus! Aus! (“Over! Over!”)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes - 4.89 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Aus! Aus! with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Erinnerung (Reminiscences)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3.31 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Erinnerung with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBThe second scherzo of the work is provided by the fifth movement. Like the first, it opens with a horn theme. In this movement Mahler uses an extensive variety of key signatures, which can change as often as every few measures. The middle section features a solo violin and solo flute, which represent the bird the singer describes. --- A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling with Lew Smoley.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ich Ging Mit Lust Durch Einen Grünen Wald (I Went Joyfully Through The Green Woods)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3.08 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ich Ging Mit Lust Durch Einen Grünen Wald with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Im Lenz (In Spring)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.3 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Im Lenz with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 6 minutes - 4.73 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Intro with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Maitanz Im Grünen (May Dance in Greenery)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.4 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Maitanz Im Grünen with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Nicht Wiedersehen! (Never To Meet Again)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.18 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Nicht Wiedersehen! with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Phantasie Aus Don Juan
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Phantasie Aus Don Juan with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Scheiden Und Meiden (Parting And Fleeing)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 2.98 MBA listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Scheiden Und Meiden with Lew Smoley from ClassicalPodcasts.com.
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Selbstgefühl (My Mood)
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.21 MBThe final song, “Selbstgefühl” (My mood), starts with a dynamic of forte. To maintain a high level of playfulness, the tubist must observe the strict dynamic indications. Mahler indicated that the octave in the left hand of the piano part can be omitted throughout the song if the additional low notes create too thick of a texture in this register. The piano extends the melodic line throughout this final song, playing the same melody in the right hand and completing the soloist’s musical tho...
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Intro
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBDas Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) is a composition for two voices and orchestra by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Composed between Year 1908 and Year 1909 following the most painful period in Mahler’s life (Year 1907). The songs address themes such as Living, Parting and Salvation. Mahler had already included movements for voice and orchestra in his Symphony No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 8. Das Lied von der Erde is the first work giving a complete integration of song cycle and symphon...