Programme
Mahler - Der Schildwache Nachtlied (from Fünf Humoresken from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Verlorne Muh (from Fünf Humoresken from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht (from Fünf Humoresken from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Das himmlisches Leben (from Fünf Humoresken from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Trost in Unglück (from Fünf Humoresken from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (from'Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Der Tambourg’sell (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Rheinlegendchen (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Lob des hohen Verstands (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Lied eines Verfolgten im Turm (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Es sungen drei Engel (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Das irdisches Leben (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Revelge (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
Mahler - Urlicht (from Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
This concert has no intermission
Musicians
Alto: Beth Taylor
Baritone: Jusung Gabriel Park
Piano: Julius Drake
Beth Taylor and baritone Jusung Gabriel Park
During the Mahler Festival, the Recital Hall is dedicated to Mahler's most beautiful songs. Perhaps today's most important Lieder accompanist, pianist Julius Drake, flanks vocalists he admires. Today, these are mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor and baritone Jusung Gabriel Park.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
In Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Mahler chose his favourite texts from the very old German collection of the same name. He composed twelve sometimes fairy-tale-like songs. Love, faith, heroic deeds... everything floats by. They are sung by Scottish Beth Taylor and South Korean Jusung Gabriel Park. The latter is making his Amsterdam debut. Drake chooses to have some songs sung by the soloists together. 'Even though they are not necessarily written as such, there are often clearly two characters speaking,' he said in Preludium. 'And as a duet they work really beautifully.'