BBCSSO/Runnicles review – resplendent recounting of Mahler’s fratricidal fairytale
Usher Hall, EdinburghColliding complex and contrasting moods, Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied was rendered with clarity and convictionWhen Sigmund Freud met Gustav Mahler in 1910, he suggested that, following a childhood trauma, “the conjunction of high tragedy and light amusement was inextricably fixed in Mahler’s mind”. Freud was famously uninterested in music, but had he known Das Klagende Lied, he would have found ample supporting evidence for his diagnosis. Composed in Mahler’s late teens and fusing opera, symphony, oratorio, lieder, part-song…
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