Christian Gerhaher / Gerold Huber
Song Recital
Christian Gerhaher originally planned to become a doctor, but his love of music was stronger. A stroke of luck for all music lovers: the baritone is now one of the world’s most sought-after lieder singers. His Schubert recordings with his longstanding piano accompanist Gerold Huber have won several awards, and Gerhaher also enjoys great success as an oratorio and opera singer. Tonight he appears at the Laeiszhalle with a purely Mahler programme.
Gustav Mahler’s orchestral songs, which are heard in this concert in piano versions, mark a high point in the Late Romantic vocal repertoire. In »Das Lied von der Erde«, which is based on Chinese poems, Mahler explores different aspects of the subject of life and death. In its original form a hybrid between an orchestral song cycle and a symphony, the composition was written at a time when Mahler was suffering from several blows of fate in his private life. The composer described it as, »Probably the most personal work I have produced so far.«
The »Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit« after poems by Friedrich Rückert, on the other hand, are intimate character pieces; they are not a cycle as such, but a group of individual songs. »Des Knaben Wunderhorn« is a set of lieder that Mahler composed based on folk poems from the eponymous collection of verse edited by Clemens von Brentano and Achim von Arnim.
Performers
Christian Gerhaher baritone
Gerold Huber piano
Programme
Gustav Mahler
Der Einsame im Herbst / aus: Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler
Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Rückert:
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
Ich atmet' einen linden Duft
Um Mitternacht
Liebst du um Schönheit
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Gustav Mahler
Lieder aus »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«:
Revelge
Der Tamboursg'sell
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Gustav Mahler
Der Abschied / aus: Das Lied von der Erde
Encore:
Gustav Mahler
Urlicht / from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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