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Work: Das klagende Lied (Song of Lamentation)

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ComposerMahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeVocal
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EdinburghMahler’s Das klagende Lied

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Schubert, Mahler
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Sir Donald Runnicles; Kathleen O'Mara; Catriona Morison; John Findon; Nicholas Brownlee

MontrealMagnificent Mahler : An Epic Season Opener

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Mahler
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare; Miah Persson; Rose Naggar-Tremblay; Clay Hilley; Matthias Goerne
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Mahler’s dark and brutal Das klagende Lied in Sydney

As the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall closes for extensive refurbishment, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs early, massive Mahler under Simone Young. 
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Private and public grief: Shostakovich and Mahler in Liverpool

On a balmy evening in Liverpool, Vasily Petrenko led the RLPO in two works that explored differenet apsects of lamentation, preceded by a Straussian toboggan ride.
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Prom 32: Gardner serves up near-perfect Brahms and Mahler

Prom 32 featured two works written in the same year, 1878, by composers who worked mainly in the same city, Vienna. Brahms was an established composer when he wrote his Violin Concerto for his virtuoso friend Joseph Joachim, while Mahler was just 17 when he started writing Das klagende Lied for a competition (the version played tonight was completed in 1880).
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