MAHLER: DAS LIED VON DER ERDE

ARTIST(s)
IVÁN FISCHER,
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA,
ROBERT DEAN, tenor
GERHILD ROMBERGER, alto

CCSSA40020
Channel Classics
723385400202

After Mahler Symphonies Nos. 1-7 and 9, conductor Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra now release Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde'.

"The long, endlessly stretched crescendo on the single note “e” (filled with so much desire) leads to thefinal part of Abschied,which I can only describe with the word ‘cosmic’. The voice is surrounded by floating meteors, objects, particles or stars, whichmove in various directions and speeds. We have left the atmosphere and look back on the beautiful green and blue planet.‘Die liebe Erde’, the lovable Earth that will stay and flourish in the spring (while we have less than 100 years to enjoyit), is the subject of Mahler’s adoration, the friend, to whom it is so painful to say farewell. This adoration of nature bringsMahler closer to Tao and Spinoza than to various religions he flirted with earlier. While saying farewell to the world, he foundhis true love and his true friend – planet Earth."

- Iván Fischer