Klemperer - Mahler "Das Lied von der Erde" (VI) - Der Abschied (part 1 of 3)

[mongemark]

meravigliosa composizione e bellissima interpretazione (Klemperer e Ludwig)

[xaman1950]

Άριστη εκτέλεση θα τόνιζα η πιο άρτια.

[MPRTT2008]

Great Recordings. Great Musicians, Great Video !

[pega17pl]

- Klemperer really understood tempo "schwer" ruling from opening beats by merciless clockwork until ending "Ewig... ewig..."

- at German a great moment is called "Sternstunde" - this "Der Abschied" by Klemperer and Ludwig is the comparative of that - 1000 thanks for TheLeonardoSaez uploading this treasure

[galehout]

@pega17pl yes, this sense of inexorable death with a yearning for life, the desperate need to embrace the nature is something that can only Klemperer trasnsmit, with the other directors takes over or the precious orchestral or philosophical heaviness

[fabiomax83]

In the final farewell, there is the supreme affirmation of the earth ... just as Mahler sings the end, it exalts the most dramatic moment evocative, the death, but in doing so celebrates ,as few,life...

[MrSwifts31]

The secretary flung open the door and grabbed the water glass by Kelemperers bed,and threw it over the burning score.

Problem solved.

Well, not quite.

The glass contained not water but vodka!

Luckily the secretary managed to extiguish all the flames!

Klemperer was slightly burned,but never had vodka in his compartment again.

[MrSwifts31]

Indeed Fritz died just before his Covent Garden & Met debuts.He was coming down the stairs of his great friend Herman Prey's house.He slipped,grabbed the rope bannister and his head crashed into the wall,he was dead the next day.

Klemperer liked his drink,but it almost cost him his life.His secretary was passing his sleeping berth on the Orient Express,and saw through the partially open door tha Klemperer had not noticed that the score he was reading was alight,from a cigarette.

Continued:~

[fabiomax83]

Nell'addio definitivo,c'è la suprema affermazione della terra...Mahler canta come pochi la fine,ne sublima il momento più drammaticamente evocativo,la morte,ma nel farlo celebra,come pochi,la vita...

[TheRenamay]

Ich weiß, was Abschied heißt - mir kommen die Tränen - immer wieder!

[DavidoffGustav]

Such a blessing to have had these two stellar artists perform this moving work. I am moved even more when you realize the autobiographical nature of mahler's work... to have his own daughter die and not be able to walk with her in the mountains... make the calm at the end that much more meaningful...

[wkhhh]

Bravo. The best.

[IPallas]

@wkhhh The BBC Guide agrees with you, and adds this sad note for the last lines in their article:"... Christa Ludwig completed the work with the reconstituted orchestra, under Otto Klemperer, at Abbey Road in July 1966. And the connection? – the tenor Fritz Wunderlich died in September 1966, aged only 35."

[83ayan]

Ergreifend, jag är rörd.

[Hexachloraphine]

Sorry had to repost due to spelling error.

This is undoubtedly the finest Das Lied von der Erde I have ever heard.

I was just knocked out by the Bernstein Israel phil,

and then I discover this, I have been wanting to hear this for Five Years, and I have not been dissapointed.

Thnks ever so much TheLeonardoSaez.

[hectorianus]

¡Por fin he encontrado el canto de la tierra¡

Gracias por hacernos compartir tanta belleza.