- ReleaseProduct
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Artist
- Birgit Remmert, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Ensemble Musique Oblique and Philippe Herreweghe
- Label
- Harmonia Mundi
- Catalogue Number
- HMA1951477
- Release Date
- July 31, 2007
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CD
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It was in 1920 that Schoenberg undertook a transcription for small orchestra of Mahler's Das lied von der Erde, intended for the viennese society for private musical performances. But he was unable to complete it, and it was only in 1983 that the musicologist Rainer Riehn took up where Schoenberg had left off and produced a finished version. the result is quite etraordinary: Schoenberg not only managed to reproduces all the original sonorities, he also brought out the extreme density of the score.
- 1 Das Lied von der Erde: I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe and Hans Peter Blochwitz 8:13
- 2 Das Lied von der Erde: II. Der Einsame im Herbst Birgit Remmert, Philippe Herreweghe and Ensemble Musique Oblique 9:25
- 3 Das Lied von der Erde: III. Von der Jugend Ensemble Musique Oblique, Hans Peter Blochwitz and Philippe Herreweghe 3:50
- 4 Das Lied von der Erde: IV. Von der Schönheit Birgit Remmert, Philippe Herreweghe and Ensemble Musique Oblique 7:30
- 5 Das Lied von der Erde: V. Der Trunkene im Frühling Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe and Hans Peter Blochwitz 4:47
- 6 Das Lied von der Erde: VI. Der Abschied Birgit Remmert, Philippe Herreweghe and Ensemble Musique Oblique 28:55