Elīna Garanča Christian Thielemann Mahler: V. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Rückert Lieder

Artists and audiences alike felt a deep sense of loss when the pandemic put a sudden end to live performances last year. The ability to enjoy digital concerts online was some consolation, but as nothing can quite match the magic of direct contact between performer and audience, the few live concerts that were able to go ahead during this period were particularly meaningful. Live from Salzburg documents two such remarkable events, featuring mezzosoprano Elīna Garančas appearances at the Salzburg Festival in the summers of 2020 and 2021 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann. These are concerts of historic significance, in part because they defied the crisis facing live performance worldwide, but first and foremost because they provided musicmaking of such exceptional intensity. Orchestral songs were again at the heart of the programme, this time Mahlers RückertLieder. These five songs do not, however, constitute a selfcontained cycle but are individual pi