Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn

My love for Mahler's music has grown. His works tend to be much "longer" then others and it took some time for me to dveleop the liking for Mahler's works.

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn is a good CD to test your system bass..Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's vocal is great too! Geat recording!

For detail:

'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' ('The Youth's Magic Horn') is a collection of anonymous German folk poems assembled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and published by them, in heavily redacted form, between 1805 and 1808. Since that time, selected items from the collection have been set as 'Lieder' by several composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Loewe, Brahms and Zemlinsky. The specific term Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", however, is usually used in connection with settings made by Gustav Mahler – though it should be appreciated that Mahler actually made more settings of Wunderhorn texts than are explicitly grouped together under that title.

Mahler's Best Recordings:

(1) Symphonies No.1 & 2London Symphony OrchestraSir Georg SoltiDECCA 448 921-2 ( 2CD )
(2) Symphony No. 2 Philharmonia Chorus & OrchestraOtto KlempererEMI 769 662-2
(3) Symphony No. 3New York PhilharmonicLeonard BernsteinDG 427 328-2 ( 2CD )
(4) Symphonies No. 2 & 4 Chicago Symphony Orch. & ChorusWiener PhilharmonikerClaudio AbbadoDG 453 037-2 ( 2CD )
( 5 ) Symphony No. 5 Chicago Symphony OrchestraSir Georg SoltiDECCA 433 329-2(6) Symphony No. 6Israel Philharmonic OrchestraZubin MehtaTELDEC 4509-98423-2
(7) Symphony No. 7Chicago Symphony OrchestraClaudio AbbadoDG 445 513-2
(8) Symphony No. 8Berliner PhilharmonikerClaudio AbbadoDG 445 843-2
( 9 ) Symphony No. 9 Chicago Symphony OrchestraCarle Marice GiulineDG 437 467-2 ( 2CD )
( 10 ) Das Lied von der Erde Philharmonia OrchestraNew Philharmonia OrchestraOtto KlempererEMI 747 231-2 CDC