MAHLER ANNIVERSARY
Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Ravel Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Daphnis et Chloé

Kazushi Ono conductor
Nathalie Stuzmann contralto

A sense of withdrawal from the world – a mood of nostalgia and nobility established by the great late-Romantic song-writer Richard Strauss – seems to arrive in Mahler’s setting for voice and orchestra of five poems by Friedrich Rückert. ‘I am dead to the world’s commotion and at peace in a still land’, sings Mahler’s soprano over a delicate harp-seasoned orchestra. In Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé suites there are some of the most startling orchestral effects ever conceived, and yet still, a very individual sense of nostalgia: in Ravel’s swirling surges, glowing textures and excitable orchestral rallyings is a delicate, naive innocence from a man whose childhood was a paradise lost.

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Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder - No. 1
Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder - No. 3
Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder - No. 5
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 1 - I
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 1 - II
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2 - II

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