Mahler: Lieder

Following the success of her album Blues Everywhere I Go in 2015, Barbara Hendricks now returns to the grand Classical repertoire in this performance of lieder by one of the greatest composers in the genre, Gustav Mahler. An essential part of Gustav Mahler’s work belongs to the lied genre, which, together with the symphony, is one of the two key facets of his output. They are of capital importance in his work because the composer’s fusion of the two genres succeeded in breathing new life into both. The ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ (Songs of a Wayfarer) belong to his early creative period. This cycle of 4 very different melodies, with its obvious similarities to Schubert’s Winterreise, relates the story of a dreamy young man who is haunted in his wanderings by the memory of his beloved. He is the very picture of the Romantic Wanderer, portrayed with his existential sorrow, his mood swings, his hopes and his vexations. Fifteen years later, Mahler turned his attention to the poet Fri