Cheryl Studer sings Gustav Mahler "Lob des hohen Verstandes"

Taped from the audience, Live performance, 15 February 2008, Teatro Villamarta, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Jonathan Alder (piano)

Song from the cycle 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'

From http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&compositio...

"LOB DES HOHEN VERSTANDES ("In Praise of High Intellect"). The text in this case may be traced back to a version earlier than the Wunderhorn collection, originally circulated under the title "Wettstreit des Kuckuks mit der Nachtigall" ("Contest between the Cuckoo and the Nightingale"). The judge for this competition is a donkey, chosen because of his long ears; predictably, he awards the prize to the cuckoo, whose singing is more "regular" than the nightingale's. Mahler's original title, in case anyone missed the point, was "Lob der Kritik," and he referred to the song as "a humorous mockery of the critics." Mahler cited this song at the beginning of the rumbustious finale of his Fifth Symphony, a movement which ends with a passage supposedly depicting a music critic being kicked down a flight of stairs."

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[Lactoris1]

I first discovered Cheryl Studer in her wonderful cycle of Schubert nature songs with Irwin Cobb on the piano, including Schiller's Der Klage Ceres - the complaint of agriculture goddess Ceres that her daughter Persephone Spring must spend six months away from her each winter as the bride of Hades in the Unndeworld. Considering that Cheryl was born in the mid-1950s, I am glad to find her voice holding up wonderfully well. She understands Mahler too.

[Scalatti]

@ Lactoris1 Surely you meant Irwin Gage. In fact, I have uploaded Studer's Klage Ceres. I agree with your assessment and find that she understands Mahler really well, among the many other composers she truly understands. An exceptional singer AND artist.

[dtkane]

Hard to consider this a video; unlike Hampson,

she has the advantage of being heard and not seen while she sings. Visually, he is always

at a disadvantage; the facial contortions are

too distracting.

[Scalatti]

The solution to your dilemma is simple: close your eyes and listen.

[SopranoYuHong]

难得也能听到Studer犯错的时候。。。。。。。

[ctenor06]

Quelle joie de réentendre (et en quelle forme!) cette grande artiste! J'avais eu la joie de travailler avec elle à Nice, en 1986, dans une belle production de Daphné de Strauss (dirigée par Berislav Klobucar)...sa scène finale notamment était extraordinairement facile et lumineuse...Merci Scalatti!

[rvansandwijk]

too bad she messes up the last few bars...

[jlaurson]

She still sings... that's good to hear.

[steainsy]

excellent