Product Overview
Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder / Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Conductor: Claudio Abbado / Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, 21-22 August 2009 / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 88 Minutes
UPC: 880242579881
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.59 x 5.31 x 7.56 inches; 3.6 Ounces
- Director : Michael Beyer
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Release date : November 16, 2010
- Actors : Magdalena Kozen, Magdalena Kozená
- Subtitles: : English, German, French
- Producers : Paul Smaczny
- Studio : EuroArts
- Country of Origin : France
- Number of discs : 1
Mahler’s songs based on poems by Friedrich Rückert (1788 –1866) are not a cycle. The only link between them is that they were penned by the same poet. Mahler himself presented them in different selections and varying sequences, as well as together with Wunderhorn songs. As far as can be reconstructed today, they were written at different times: The oldest draft of Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder (Look not, love, on my work unended) is dated 14 June 1901. This means it was composed during the theatre summer break in 1901 at Mahler’s summer residence in Maiernigg by Lake Wörthersee.
The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the magnificent mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience spellbound in this live recording from Lucerne Festival in Summer. Mahler’s five Rückert-Lieder – in a profoundly moving and rapturously received performance – precede Mahler’s sublime and deeply personal Fourth Symphony. This extraordinary work is executed with power, passion and sensitivity, with Magdalena Kožená giving a transcendent rendition of the final movement.
Gustav Mahler: Five lieder based on poems by Friedrich Rückert; Symphony No. 4 in G Major
