Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version) [Live] Poschner-Klebel, Lipovše, Rendall, Hemm, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen

• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version):
• 1 Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version): I. Waldmärchen [Live] 25:30
• 2 Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version): II. Der Spielmann [Live] 17:35
• 3 Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version): III. Hochzeitsstück [Live] 18:59
• Total Runtime 01:02:04

Info for Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version) [Live]

Mahler’s cantata Das klagende Lied today constitutes a veritable rarity in concert programmes - in an age that without contradiction recognizes Mahler as one oft he most eminent milestones in the music history of the late 19th and early 20th century. Based on a horror tale written by Mahler himself, this large-scale, vocal symphonic work forms the beginning of Mahler’s more familiar oeuvre. Mahler, at the age of only 20, submitted the score for the Beethoven Prize at the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna.

He did not receive this prize, however, and subsequently made several revisions. It was finally premiered by the composer in Vienna on 17 February 1901 only. The ‚mixed version’ (also employed for this recording) consisting of the original first movement and the revised version of the other two parts, became customary in the course of the great Mahler Renaissance in the 1960s. The presented live capture with the 2019 deceased Michael Gielen - like Mahler not only a conductor but also a composer - with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra was taken in June 1990 in the Konzerthaus Vienna.

"Gustav Mahler revised his Klagendes Lied several times, and finally published it without the first part, Waldmärchen. We are used to performances including the deleted first part, Waldmärchen, before the second and third parts (Spielmann, Hochzeitsstück). Michael Gielen also used this mixed version in Vienna in 1990. Without reaching the level of what for me is still the best recording (San Francisco Symphony, Michel Tilson Thomas), Gielen succeeds with overall good forces in a tense, highly dramatic interpretation. Only in terms of colors and transparency of the material, Tilson Thomas is ahead of Gielen by quite a bit." (pizzicato.lu)

Brigitte Poschner-Klebel, soprano
Marjana Lipovsek, mezzo-soprano
David Rendall, tenor
Manfred Hemm, baritone
Wiener Singakademie
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Gielen, conductor

Marjana Lipovšek
is a native of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the daughter of the composer Marijan Lipovšek. After her studies at the Academies of Music in Ljubljana and Graz, she started her career as an opera singer at the Vienna State Opera in 1979.

She sang at all the important opera houses of the world, e.g. in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, Barcelona, Milano, London, Chicago, New York and San Francisco as well as at the international festivals of Berlin, Bregenz, Vienna, Edinburgh, Florence, Prague and Salzburg.

Her repertoire includes a.o. the major Wagner roles: Fricka, Waltraute, Brangäne and Kundry, as well as Richard Strauss’ Herodias, Amme and Klytämnestra, Verdi’s Amneris, Eboli, Azucena, Ulrica and Quickly and the roles in French of Carmen and Dalila.

She performed together with many famous conductors, e.g. Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Gielen, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa and Horst Stein.

Her concert repertoire extends from Johann Sebastian Bach to modern music. Her special love is dedicated to the Lied.

Besides her big success on stage, she also performed in movies such as Jakob the Liar and The Grey Zone. She participated in TV opera productions, e.g. in Daphne, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Die Walküre.

The artist received numerous rewards and prizes, e.g. the Silver Reward of the Republic of Slovenia, the Gustav Mahler Gold Medal 1996, the Golden Reward for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria and the Golden Decoration of the Vienna district.

Marjana Lipovšek has been awarded the titles of Bavarian and Austrian Kammersängerin.

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