We have selected a few military songs like \u2018Revelge\u2019, the soldiers\u2019 morning wake-up call, the woeful \u2018Zu Strassbourg auf der Schanz\u2019, the excited marching tune \u2018Aus! Aus!\u2019, the enigmatic \u2018Wo die sch\u00f6nen Trompeten blasen\u2019 and \u2018Schildwache Nachtlied\u2019, in which during his watch, a sentinel seems to have a vision of a girl waiting for him and wanting to console him with her soft words.<\/p>\n
Seemingly an odd choice is \u2018Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht\u2019, well known as the first song of the earlier song cycle \u2018Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen\u2019. This poem however is also mainly from \u2018Des Knaben Wunderhorn\u2019, with a few additions by Mahler himself.<\/p>\n
Two more songs in which love is marred by parting are\u2018Scheiden und meiden\u2019 and \u2018Nicht wiedersehen\u2019.
\nIn \u2018Urlicht\u2019 one hears the human struggle with mortal existence and the longing for liberation.<\/p>\n
Flanked by tongue-in-cheek songs as \u2018Des Antonius van Padua Fischpredigt\u2019, in which church-goers pretending to be pious are satirized, and the jesting song \u2018Lob des Hohen Verstandes\u2019, in which Mahler gives his critics a piece of his mind, this music creates a world in itself in which both listeners and musicians are able to recognize themselves.<\/p>\n
Esther Kuiper, mezzo-soprano
\nSven Weyens, bas-baritone
\nMaurice Lammerts van Bueren, piano<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A cuckoo and a nightingale compete in a singing contest with a donkey as their judge. A sentinel muses on life in the mysterious night. Saint Anthony tries with all his might to convert the fish. A soldier pays a last visit to his beloved before leaving for the battlefield. Humour, romance, drama, myths and fairytales: all this can be found in the poems of the collection \u2018Des Knaben Wunderhorn\u2019. Mahler was quite fond of these poems and used more than twenty of them in his compositions.
\nThe alternation between transcendent, sometimes religious songs, rough, poignant and jovial soldier songs, comic fables and folk tunes, all in an overarching and ever recognizable mahlerian idiom, makes these songs so appealing to perform and to listen to.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[72],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5409","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd","7":"pa_aantal-cds-68","8":"pa_aantal-tracks-76","9":"pa_type-2-cd","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5409\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zefirrecords.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}