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Mahler and Bartók

Cristian Măcelaru conducts WDR Symphony Orchestra in Bartók's fairy tale ballet The Wooden Prince and baritone Matthias Goerne joins for Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Internationally renowned baritone Matthias Goerne joins the WDR Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Cristian Măcelaru for a selection of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn settings. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) is a collection of German folk poetry which inspired some of Mahler’s most memorable songs. Tonight's selection, including original orchestrations by Mahler and new ones from Detlev Glanert, ranges from playful and naïve to the big themes of love and death, guilt and redemption.

Premiered in 1917, Bartók’s fairy tale ballet The Wooden Prince excitingly fuses a Straussian late-Romantic style (and size of orchestra), with the central European folk music that had been so important for Bartók since the early years of the century.

Recorded in September at the Philharmonie, Cologne, and introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selection)
Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz
Rheinlegendchen
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Nicht wiedersehen!
Das irdische Leben
Urlicht
Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald
Revelge
Der Tamboursg'sell

Bartók: The Wooden Prince, op. 13

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)

1 hour, 58 minutes

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Mon 26 Feb 2024 19:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz

    Music Arranger: Detlev Glanert. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wie die schonen Trompeten blasen

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Nicht wiedersehen!

    Music Arranger: Detlev Glanert. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Das irdische Leben

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Urlicht

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald

    Music Arranger: Detlev Glanert. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Revelge

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tamboursg'sell

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Singer: Matthias Goerne.

  • Robert Schumann

    Funf Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102

    Performer: Christian Poltéra. Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • Poltera, Brautigam - Brahms, Schumann: Cello & Piano.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Béla Bartók

    The Wooden Prince, Op. 13

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 5, in G minor

    Performer: Cristian Măcelaru. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Mon 26 Feb 2024 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3