Janet Baker: The complete Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ( Mahler)

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (188385): I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 00:00 II. Ging heut Morgen übers Feld 04:20 III. Ich hab ein glühend Messer 09:03 IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz 12:37 Mahler, Gustav (18601911) composer Janet Baker mezzosoprano Sir John Barbirolli conductor Hallé Orchestra Scores: Available for free at For more of Austrian songs check out my The art of Austrian song: Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Berg playlist. Description by Steven Coburn: This is Mahler s first completely mature work. It is also his first fullfledged orchestral song cycle, a genre Mahler was eventually to bring to its height. Unlike its two predecessors, Berlioz s Nuits d été (Summer Nights) and Wagner s WesendonckLieder (Wesendonck Songs), Mahler s cycle was intended from the beginning as orchestral. Despite the fact that it was first sketched with piano and published