In charge in Vienna
Donald Macleod traces the course of Gustav Mahler's career as he takes up the most prestigious post in music - director of the Vienna Court Opera.
Donald Macleod traces the course of Mahler's career as he takes up the most prestigious post in music, Director of the Vienna Court Opera.
Gustav Mahler rose from humble beginnings on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become one of the most powerful figures in the musical establishment. Nowadays his symphonies are almost guaranteed to fill concert halls, but during his lifetime Mahler made his name as a conductor.
Mahler had landed the most important job of his life, but his conducting duties in Vienna often prevented him from composing. Yet during the summer, in his woodland composing hut on the banks of Lake Attersee in Upper Austria, he would write some of his most enduring symphonies.
Symphony No 4 in G major (2nd mvt)
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell
In diesem Wetter (Kindertotenlieder)
Hermann Prey, baritone
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (1st mvt)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
5 R眉ckert-Lieder
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
NDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Producer: Callum Thomson.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 4 in G major for soprano and orchestra - 2nd movement
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- CBS: CD44713.
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Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder - no.5; In diesem Wetter, in deisem Braus
Singer: Hermann Prey. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips: 4540142.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor - 1st movement; Trauermarsch
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Deutsche Grammophon: 4236082.
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Gustav Mahler
5 Ruckert-Lieder vers. for voice and orch
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: North German R S O. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Deutsche Grammophon: 028943992824.
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