Mezzo-soprano Katharina Kammerloher was engaged by Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 1993 and has performed at international festivals like the Salzburg Festival and BBC Proms.
Compositional Technique
A main feature of almost all Mahler's 'Wunderhorn' songs is humor, for which he adapted the genre term 'humoresque'.
Composition History
The texts Mahler chose for his 'Wunderhorn' songs were collected and edited by Romantic poets Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and published in 1806/08.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in the natural acoustics of Konzerthaus Abtei Marienmünster, with the label MDG refraining from artificial sound manipulation.
Performer Biography
Pianist Eric Schneider, who initially studied mathematics, received groundbreaking impulses from figures like Paul Badura-Skoda, Alfred Brendel, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mahler creatively intervened in his source texts, rearranging or combining them to align with his universal themes of love, joy, loss, war, and death.
Composer Biography
Gustav Mahler, unlike his contemporaries, exclusively set texts from the old German song anthology 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' until 1900.
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