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Nigel Wilkinson’s latest assessment of a Brussels efficiency of Mahler’s gigantic choral Eighth Symphony stirred up some dialogue in regards to the ubiquity of the composer’s purely (or primarily) symphonic music in live performance halls as we speak. I’ll chime in to say that I too discover the symphonies a chore, excepting the elegant “Adagietto” from Demise in Venice — I imply, the Fifth Symphony.
However, I really like Mahler’s solo vocal music, so this week’s Chris’s Cache presents an early Could banquet of ten fantastic singers in eight works. My intention was to pick out broadcasts that featured vital performers who hardly ever seem within the U.S.: Andrè Schuen, Catriona Morison, Stéphane Degout, Gerhild Romberger, Allan Clayton, Fleur Barron, Samule Hasselhorn, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Marianne Crebassa, and Ying Fang.
Although this week’s installment might seem to be lots, it not at all consists of all of Mahler’s vocal works. I’ve omitted the Eighth Symphony solely in addition to the conclusion of the Resurrection. I’m additionally saving Das Klagende Lied for a future Chris’s Cache.
So far as I’m involved, the non-symphonic works aren’t programmed as usually as they is likely to be. It was a pleasure in 2017 when Esa-Pekka Salonen took over for James Levine in a sequence of Met Orchestra concert events at Carnegie Corridor the place he carried out the Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde and Des Knaben Wunderhorn in a single week.
Lots of as we speak’s singers carry out extra in orchestral concert events and recitals than in opera. Nonetheless, Scottish mezzo-soprano Morison who received the Foremost Prize on the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World contest will likely be Fricka when Kiril Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic start their Ring subsequent spring on the Salzburg Easter Pageant. Romberger is Erda in Siegfried on this 12 months’s installment of the HIP Ring that Kent Nagano has been conducting; I used to be happy to study simply final week that parterre field can have a reviewer in attendance for Siegfried when it arrives in Dresden in June. Schuen was luxurious casting as Donner at La Scala when David McVicar started his Ring in November.
Although absent from the Met subsequent season, Fang will seem with Joyce DiDonato and the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler’s Second Symphony at Carnegie Corridor. Barron has just lately twice carried out recitals in NewYork and has additional U.S. recitals deliberate for subsequent season. Clayton and Crebassa had been due on the Met this season however the tenor’s Jupiter in Semele has been pushed again whereas the mezzo pulled out of her scheduled Cherubinos, the function of her Met debut. Degout, lacking from the Met for a protracted whereas now, will likely be touring subsequent month with Sabine Devieilhe in an attention-grabbing program that pairs excerpts from Thomas’s Hamlet with the Fauré Requiem.
Try the “Trove Thursday” archive for a lot of different Mahler efficiency for listening and/or downloading.
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Andrè Schuen
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
Conductor: Pietari Inkinen
Congresshalle Saarbrücken
8 September 2024
Broadcast
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Catriona Morison
BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Thomas Søndergård
Brangwyn Corridor, Swansea
19 January 2019
Broadcast
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Stéphane Degout
Orchestre de Paris
Conductor: Jukka-Peka Saraste
Paris Philharmonie
4 March 2020
Broadcast
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Fleur Barron
Samuel Hasselhorn
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann
Woodruff Arts Middle
26 September 2024
Broadcast
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Gerhild Romberger
Allan Clayton
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Casals Discussion board, Kronberg im Taunus
21 September 2023
Broadcast
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Urlicht”
Wiebke Lehmkuhl
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Conductor: Cristian Macelaru
Kölner Philharmonie Köln
3 November 2023
Broadcast
Mahler: Symphony No. 3,“O Mensch”
Marianne Crebassa
Tiffin Choirs
London Symphony Refrain
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Barbican Corridor
15 January 2025
Broadcast
Mahler: Symphony No. 4,“Das himmlische Leben”
Ying Fang
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Susanna Mälkki
Orchestra Corridor
21 March 2024
Broadcast
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