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Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Iain Burnside and Andrew McGregor

Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in Building a Library, plus Marina Frolova-Walker picks some of the best new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

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Marina Frolova-Walker picks some of the best new releases, including Britten from Simon Rattle and the LSO, and Chopin from young star pianist Yunchan Lim.

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Building a Library

Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.

Gustav Mahler composed his song cycle Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) between 1901 and 1904 for voice and orchestra. The texts are poems by Friedrich Rückert, selected from the 428 poems he wrote in the 1830s as an outpouring of grief following the illness and death of two of his children from scarlet fever. Mahler's Late Romantic settings reflect the poems' mixture of feelings: anguish, fantasy resuscitation of the children, resignation, and ending in a mood of transcendence.

Recommended Version:
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sony G010001399711H

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Justin Doyle. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir.
    • Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Concerto for String Orchestra (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.10 for piano: no.8 in F major

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Decca.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude in A minor Op.25 No.11

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Decca.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    A Florentine Tragedy (conclusion)

    Singer: Rachel Wilson. Singer: Benjamin Bruns. Singer: Christopher Maltman. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Patrick Hahn.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (conclusion)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Britten: Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person's Guide to the O.
    • LSO Live.
    • 20.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.4 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Verita Baroque Ensemble.
    • Evil Penguin.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 102.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Piccolo tango

    Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch.
    • 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 6.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 105.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Britten: Violin Concerto, Chamber Works.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

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