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Mahler Songs
MRSACD-018

Maria Forsström, contralto
Johannes Landgren,organ


”Mahler Songs” is an enormous transcription project, which has taken two years to complete. The original orchestration is here re-arranged for a grand symphonic organ. The intention is to get to know how the beyond-the-world aspect in Mahlers music and song texts can be deepened through the encounter with the sacred room and the organ as a sacred instrument. The recording has been made with 10 microphones in a surround system in the Vasa Church, Göteborg, Sweden. The fantastic orchestral organ of this church was built in 1909 and has been fundamental for awakening the idea and inspiring its fulfillment.

1-5 I. Kindertotenlieder (1901-04)
1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn
2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
3. Wenn dein Mütterlein
4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
5 In diesem Wetter
 
6-10 II. Fünf Lieder nach
                Gedichten von Rückert
                (1901-02)
6. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!
7. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft
8. Liebst du um Schönheit
9. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
10. Um Mitternacht
 
11. III. Urlicht
      from symphony No.2 (1893)
 
12. IV. Der Abschied
  From "Das Lied von der Erde" (1908)