Jessye Norman Sings Mahler
Historic Performances • 20-Sep-1989
Renowned soprano Jessye Norman performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, a pensive set of orchestral songs meditating on love and death — perhaps Mahler’s favorite themes. Then she joins Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra in Wagner’s ecstatic aria of fatal love.
MAHLER (1860 –1911)
Five Late Songs to Poems by Friedrich Rückert (1901–02; orch. 1905)
1. Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (I sensed a gentle fragrance)
2. Blicke mir, nicht in die Lieder! (Look not at my unfinished songs!)
3. Um Mitternacht (At midnight)
4. Liebst du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty)
5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I have withdrawn from the world)
WAGNER (1813–83)
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (1858–59)
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